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Author(s):	Michelle Perrot

Date:	2024	Format:	azw3	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0300167091
Pages:	384	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today

The winner of Frances 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 livesthe 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 kings chamber to childs sleeping quarters to lovers trysting place to monks 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, Perrots engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroombirth, sex, illness, deathin its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.
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