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

----- 旧政权城市中的性：法国年轻工人与亲密关系，1660-1789年

ISBN: 9780190945183 出版年：2020 页码：293 Hardwick, Julie Oxford University Press

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.