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Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (Dress, Body, Culture)

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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, Barcan encounters morticians, nudists, strippers, nurses, tattooists, artists and pornographers. Shining a light on a topic that has been largely ignored despite its ability to titillate, shock and entertain, Nudity is a fascinating blend of meaningful minutiae and big philosophical questions about this most unnatural state of nature.

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Big business, a moral minefield and a fact of everyday life--this book exposes the conflicts and complexities of our most natural state.

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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, Barcan encounters morticians, nudists, strippers, nurses, tattooists, artists and pornographers. Shining a light on a topic that has been largely ignored despite its ability to titillate, shock and entertain, Nudity is a fascinating blend of meaningful minutiae and big philosophical questions about this most unnatural state of nature.

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About the Author

Ruth Barcan is Senior Lecturer, University of Western Sydney. She lives in Australia.

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Table of Contents

The Nudity/Clothing Dialectic * The Metaphor of Nudity * Unnatural Nature: Mess, Savagery, Perversion, Crime * The Nude Republic * Celebrity, "Ordinariness" and Identity

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781859738726
Author:
Barcan, Ruth
Publisher:
Berg Publishers
Location:
Oxford, UK
Subject:
Popular Culture
Subject:
Body, human
Subject:
Nudity.
Subject:
Sex symbolism.
Subject:
Popular Culture - General
Subject:
Social aspects
Subject:
Nudity -- Social aspects.
Subject:
Sociology - General
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Dress, Body, Culture
Series Volume:
PRB 02-10E
Publication Date:
20040931
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
18 b/w illus.
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.13 in
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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, Barcan encounters morticians, nudists, strippers, nurses, tattooists, artists and pornographers. Shining a light on a topic that has been largely ignored despite its ability to titillate, shock and entertain, Nudity is a fascinating blend of meaningful minutiae and big philosophical questions about this most unnatural state of nature.
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