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Author Hardwick, Julie, 1962- author.

Title Sex in an old regime city : young people, production, and reproduction in France, 1660-1789 / Julie Hardwick
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Summary 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 like local courts, clergy, legal officials, and social welfare managers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from HTML homepage (Oxford, viewed October 16, 2020)
Subject Sex -- France -- History
Courtship -- France -- History
Man-woman relationships -- France -- History
Youth -- Sexual behavior -- France -- History
Working class -- Sexual behavior -- France -- History
Courtship
Man-woman relationships
Sex
Working class -- Sexual behavior
Youth -- Sexual behavior
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190945206
0190945206