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tl;dr: The article is an excerpt from https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300167092/bedroom https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300167092/bedroom ("The Bedroom"
by slowmovintarget 8y ago
tl;dr: The article is an excerpt from https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300167092/bedroom https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300167092/bedroom ("The Bedroom") examining the cultural history of the bedroom. This excerpt details the notion of the adolescent young lady's room in mid to late 1800s Europe, and in particular its treatment in literature.
No conclusions are drawn.
- microcolonel 8y ago> No conclusions are drawn. What are we calling a conclusion? > Adolescence is above all a gendered category rather than a social one. No further justification for this outburst is proffered, and that's a shame, given the rest of the piece is littered with references to published literature. In no other context have I heard or entertained the notion that adolescence is for girls alone, and it is obviously a social category. It's a statement something like "Water above all is an abstract concept, rather than something which wets.", or "The apple is above all a metaphysical quandry, rather than a fruit.". This is the kind of say-nothing prose that exists to arouse people who peaked in college; it's a shame since the rest of the piece seems to at least get at something.