Dairy Queens The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de Medici to Marie Antoinette 1st Edition by Meredith Martin 0674059476 9780674059474

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ISBN 10: 0674059476 

ISBN 13: 9780674059474

Author: Meredith Martin

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin 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 structures—most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles—have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin 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. Opening with Catherine de’ Medici’s lavish dairy at Fontainebleau (c. 1560), Martin’s book explores how French queens and noblewomen used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. Pleasure dairies also provided women with a site to promote good health, by spending time in salubrious gardens and consuming fresh milk. Illustrated with a dazzling array of images and photographs, Dairy Queens sheds new light on architecture, self, and society in the ancien régime.

Table of contents:

Catherine de’ Medici, the French Cybele

Absolutism and the Sexual Politics of Pastoral Retreat

Health, Hygiene, and the Hermitages of Madame de Pompadour

Marie-Antoinette and the Hameau Effect

Regenerating the Monarchy: the Queen’s Dairy at Rambouillet

Epilogue

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