The bedroom

The bedroom: an intimate history

by Perrot, Michelle

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"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…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elkin

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"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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018

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The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 371 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780300167092, 0300167091
  • oclc:on1057703278
  • LC Classification:GT3000.5.B43
  • Dewey Decimal:392

Table of Contents

Chamber music -- The King's bedroom -- Rooms for sleeping -- A room of one's own -- The children's room -- The women's room -- Hotel rooms -- Workers' rooms -- Sickbeds and deathbeds -- No exit -- Fugitive bedrooms -- "Going outside ...".

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Subjects

Bedrooms Bedrooms -- History Chambres à coucher Chambres à coucher -- Histoire Espace personnel Espace personnel -- Histoire Europa Geschichte History Kultur Personal space Personal space -- History Schlafzimmer

Writers

Perrot, Michelle Elkin, Lauren

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