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

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Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 - Hardwick, Julie
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Sex in an Old Regime City is a major reframing of the long history of young people's intimacy. It shows how long- running problems like out-of-wedlock pregnancy were handled very differently in Old Regime France than in more recent centuries. Abortion, infanticide, broken hearts, and conflict with parents and neighbors were key challenges of young people's lives then as now but young couples' efforts to deal with these challenges were supported in pragmatic, often sympathetic, ways by their communities and institutions ...

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Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789 2020, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190945183

Hardcover