Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… health than those of the understanding.’ 3 In their periodical, read by both men and women in places belonging to the public sphere and in those that were part of the private one, the role of women in the creation of a new model of … of reappropriating one’s body and of accepting it: it was part of a shared experience, even if not all ailments could be publicly discussed, in particular, gynaecological disorders. 9 Nonetheless, talks in the Pump Room did not only revolve … The Althone Press, 1990): over 138 spas were identified. 7 . The practice became widespread in Bath following the publication of Dr William Oliver’s A Practical Dissertation on the Bath Waters (1704). 8 . See Annick Cossic-Péricarpin, …
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