Naked : : A Cultural History of American Nudism / / Brian Hoffman.
In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 29 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION Going Naked
- 1 INDECENT EXPOSURE The Battle for Nudism in the American Metropolis
- 2 OUT IN THE OPEN Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
- 3 BETWEEN THE COVERS Nudist Magazines and Censorship in Midcentury America
- 4 NAKED IN SUBURBIA Family Values and the Rise of the Nudist Resort
- 5 PORNOGRAPHY VERSUS NUDISM The Contradictions of Twentieth-Century Sexual Liberalism
- 6 FREE THE BEACH Nudism and Naturism after the Sexual Revolution
- EPILOGUE Nudism in the New Millennium
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR