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Origin of Twin BedsTwin size beds sleep 1. Twin beds originated in the 18th century when people were involved in companion type marriages. "Twin beds were initially recommended by proponents of the domestic sanitation movement as part of a raft of hygiene measures, by the 1920s they had become a fashionable item of bedroom furniture for modern couples in ‘companionate’ marriages. It was in this context that Marie Stopes, in her popular marital advice books, railed against them as an ‘invention of the devil’, symptomatic of the evils of modernity, and endangering the happiness of the modern married couple. The article concludes that, despite these changing contexts of consumption, the significance of the history of twin beds needs to be understood through the intersecting discourses of domesticity, health and sexuality." Read more...
Reference: Together and Apart: Twin Beds, Domestic Hygiene and Modern Marriage, 1890–1945 Hilary HindsTogether and Apart: Twin Beds, Domestic Hygiene and Modern Marriage, 1890–1945 Hilary Hinds |
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