Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elken.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.Description: ix, 371 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 0300167091
- 9780300167092
- Histoire de chambres. English
- 392 23
- GT3000.5.B43 P4713 2018
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 392 PER | Available | 068732 |
Originally published in French as Histoire de chambres: Éditions du Seuil, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 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 ...".
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.
Translated from the French.
