A cultural history of twin beds / / Hilary Hinds.
A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2020. ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Home.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | "First published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic." |
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Table of Contents:
- List of FiguresSeries Preface: Why Home?AcknowledgementsIntroduction: At Home with Twin Beds1. Double or Twin?Part One: Hygiene 2. Air in the Bedroom3. Vital Force4. Coda: Modern SleepPart Two: Modernity5. Anti-Victorianism and the Modern Home6. Modern by Design7. Coda: The Mise-en-Scène of Modern MarriagePart Three: Marriage8. At Home with a Stranger9. Marie Stopes and Modern Marriage10. Late Victorian Marital Advice11. Abstinence and Ambivalence12. Twin Beds: The Literary VerdictConclusion: Together and ApartNotesReferencesIndex