• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A cultural history of twin beds
  • Contributor: Hinds, Hilary [Author]
  • Published: London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic,, [2019]
  • Published in: Home
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781350045446; 1350045446; 9781350045453; 1350045454; 9781350045439; 1350045438
  • Keywords: Beds History ; Beds Social aspects ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: List of Figures -- Series Preface: Why Home? -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: At Home with Twin Beds -- 1. Double or Twin? -- Part One: Hygiene -- 2. Air in the Bedroom -- 3. Vital Force -- 4. Coda: Modern Sleep -- Part Two: Modernity -- 5. Anti-Victorianism and the Modern Home -- 6. Modern by Design -- 7. Coda: The Mise-en-Scène of Modern Marriage -- Part Three: Marriage -- 8. At Home with a Stranger -- 9. Marie Stopes and Modern Marriage -- 10. Late Victorian Marital Advice -- 11. Abstinence and Ambivalence -- 12. Twin Beds: The Literary Verdict -- Conclusion: Together and Apart -- Notes -- References -- Index.
  • Access State: Open Access