Martin, Meredith (Meredith S.)

Dairy queens : the politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette / Meredith Martin.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Harvard historical studies ; 176

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, the author tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden statues have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. The author challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms of pastoral architecture such as model farms and hermitages, pleasure dairies were crucial arenas for elite women to exercise and experiment with identity and power.

9780674048997 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0674048997 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Architecture and women France History.
Pleasure dairies France.
Politics and culture France History.
Elite (Social sciences) France History.
Architecture et femmes France Histoire.
Laiteries de propreté France.
Politique et culture France Histoire.
Élite (Sciences sociales) France Histoire.
Architecture and women.
Elite (Social sciences)
Pleasure dairies.
Politics and culture.
Architektur.
Frau.
Freizeit.
Elite.
Milchwirtschaft.
Landhaus.
Pavillon.
Kvinnor och arkitektur historia Frankrike.
Politik och kultur historia Frankrike.
Eliter historia Frankrike.
France.
Frankreich.

History.

Harvard historical studies ; v. 176.

Politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 271247
Cote: BIB 204183
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