Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789

ISBN-13: 9780190945183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 294 str.

Julie Hardwick

Recenzje

Hardwick invites us to ponder the distress and relief of mothers who consigned newborns to fathers or strangers, not to mention latrines and limbo, without implying that they shared our sensibilities or that we can penetrate their sentiments...This searching and subtle account of safety netting in another place and time provides much food for thought. It is not a long book, but it is a big one. It provides an object lesson in how to make the most of records from a world we have lost, with humility and humanity.

O autorze

Julie Hardwick is the John E. Green Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Seventeenth-Century France (OUP, 2009) and The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France.