Nudity : a cultural anatomy /

Nudity : a cultural anatomy / Ruth Barcan.

We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts? Drawing on popular culture, literature, philosophy, religion, and firsthand interviews in order to answer these questions, Bar...

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Main Author: Barcan, Ruth.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2004.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Nudity > Social aspects.
Sex symbolism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The nudity/clothing dialectic
  • The metaphor of nudity
  • Unnatural nature : mess, savagery, perversion, crime
  • The nude republic : celebrity, "ordinariness" and identity
  • Conclusion.

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