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Bedroom : an intimate history

Title
Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elkin.
Author
Perrot, Michelle
Publication
  • New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 18-7432Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Elkin, Lauren
Description
ix, 371 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives--the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom--birth, sex, illness, death--in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history."--From front jacket flap
Uniform Title
Histoire de chambres. English
Alternative Title
Histoire de chambres.
Subject
  • Bedrooms > History
  • Personal space > History
  • Bedrooms
  • Personal space
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-355) and index.
Call Number
JFE 18-7432
ISBN
  • 0300167091
  • 9780300167092
LCCN
2017962733
OCLC
1024164179
Author
Perrot, Michelle, author.
Title
Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elkin.
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-355) and index.
Added Author
Elkin, Lauren, translator.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-7432
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