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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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 18-7432 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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