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Nudism in a Cold Climate

Author : Annebella Pollen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733622066
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Nudism in a Cold Climate written by Annebella Pollen and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncraticphenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, anisland nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reservedsocial attitudes.Structured across three interrelated phases, readers firstencounter the movement at its genesis in the 1920s,when nudism was synonymous with vegetarianism,intellectualism and utopianism. That nascent cultureproliferated in the postwar era, with a widening landscapeof amateur clubs and governing organizations alongsidehigh circulation publications and censorship-challengingphotographers. Finally, Annebella Pollen examines themovement's redefinition as naturism, its cultural battles andits struggle to survive amid shifts in sexual liberation in thepermissive 1960s.Unadorned bodies were the central campaigning tool ofBritish naturism's photographic propaganda. They drewattention to the cause and drove publication sales but theyalso attracted regular public opprobrium. Naturism's shiftingvisual culture thus provides a microcosmic view of Britishmoral, legal and aesthetic transformations in a period of rapidsocial change, revealing evolving perspectives on health andsex, gender and ethnicity, pleasure and power.

Naked

Author : Brian Hoffman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814790542
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.

A Brief History of Nakedness

Author : Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897294
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Nakedness written by Philip Carr-Gomm and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.

Au Naturel

Author : Stephen L. Harp
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807155276
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Au Naturel written by Stephen L. Harp and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or "naturism," an activity more commonly referred to as "nudism." Because of France's unique tolerance for public nudity, the country also hosts hundreds of thousands of nudists from other European nations, an influx that has contributed to the most extensive infrastructure for nude tourism in the world. In Au Naturel, historian Stephen L. Harp explores how the evolution of European tourism encouraged public nudity in France, connecting this cultural shift with important changes in both individual behaviors and collective understandings of the body, morality, and sexuality. Harp's study, the first in-depth historical analysis of nudism in France, challenges widespread assumptions that "sexual liberation" freed people from "repression," a process ostensibly reflected in the growing number of people practicing public nudity. Instead, he contends, naturism gained social acceptance because of the bodily control required to participate in it. New social codes emerged governing appropriate nudist behavior, including where one might look, how to avoid sexual excitation, what to wear when cold, and whether even the most modest displays of affection -- -including hand-holding and pecks on the cheek -- were permissible between couples. Beginning his study in 1927 -- when naturist doctors first advocated nudism in France as part of "air, water, and sun cures" -- Harp focuses on the country's three earliest and largest nudist centers: the Île du Levant in the Var, Montalivet in the Gironde, and the Cap d'Agde in Hérault. These places emerged as thriving tourist destinations, Harp shows, because the municipalities -- by paradoxically reinterpreting inde-cency as a way to foster European tourism to France -- worked to make public nudity more acceptable. Using the French naturist movement as a lens for examining the evolving notions of the body and sexuality in twentieth-century Europe, Harp reveals how local practices served as agents of national change.

Carry on Naked

Author : Cressida Twitchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781717033055
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Carry on Naked written by Cressida Twitchett and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England, the summer of1976 turned out to be the hottest on record. By a lucky coincidence, that was the same summer that Diane Goodwin decided to turn her traditional bed & breakfast and campsite into a naturist camp. Situated on the fringe of the popular New Forest, Diane sought to achieve her ambition of having an all-over tan with the help of a disparate mix of friends and family and against the opposition of some very conservative locals. The result is a naked pleasure.

Cinema Au Naturel

Author : Mark Storey
Publisher : Wolfbait
ISBN 13 : 9781916215139
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Cinema Au Naturel written by Mark Storey and published by Wolfbait. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quirky world of nudist films is revealed. Cinema au Naturel brings to life many long-forgotten films such as Elysia: Valley of the Nude, The Monster of Camp Sunshine, and Take Off Your Clothes and Live! In his account of the history of nudist film, Mark Storey, introduces readers to the best and the worst of these cinematic portrayals of clothes-free life.

Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957609518
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Kindred of the Kibbo Kift written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ethical Stripper

Author : Stacey Clare
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789651344
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Stripper written by Stacey Clare and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘As educational as it is enlightening ... Read this’ SARA PASCOE ‘Passionately argued, meticulously researched and angry as hell ... leads the reader beyond the strip club and on to the battlefield where sex workers fight for their rights’ KATE LISTER ‘Deeply impressive ... An important book, sorely needed’ CAROL LEIGH 'An unflinching takedown of inadequate working conditions ... A must read’ JUNO MAC, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes Forget everything you think you know about strippers In this powerful book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry – the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work, and stigma. Bringing her personal knowledge of the industry to bear, she offers an unapologetic critique and searing indictment of exploitation, and raises the rights of sex workers to the top of the agenda. The Ethical Stripper rejects notions of victimhood, challenges stigma and shame, and unpacks decades of confusion and contradictions. It’s about the sex-work community’s fight for safety and self-determination, and it challenges you to think twice about every newspaper article, documentary and film you have seen about stripping and sex work.

Mass Photography

Author : Annebella Pollen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000211754
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mass Photography written by Annebella Pollen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, for the first time, the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. The central case study is the 55,000 photographs submitted to One Day for Life in 1987, which aimed, in its own time, to be ‘the biggest photographic event the world had ever seen’.

Forging Democracy

Author : Geoff Eley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198021407
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Forging Democracy written by Geoff Eley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left championed democracy in the revolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945. They organized civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European democracy and the history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound together. Geoff Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left--its successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and, most importantly, its formative, lasting influence on the European political landscape. At a time when the Left's influence and legitimacy are frequently called into question, Forging Democracy passionately upholds its vital contribution.

Naked As Nature Intended

Author : Pamela Green
Publisher : Suffolk & Watt
ISBN 13 : 9780954598594
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Naked As Nature Intended written by Pamela Green and published by Suffolk & Watt. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1961, Naked as Nature Intended created a sensation. Queues formed around the block and police were called in to manage the crowds. It stayed on the big screen for over 17 months. The film was directed by the notorious George Harrison Marks and starred Pamela Green, Britain's answer to Bettie Page. Pamela Green was best-known for her short but striking role in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. The plot involves Pamela Green and a few other young women taking a holiday. Their destination? A nudist camp. Perfectly legal but totally scandalous at the time. Naked as Nature Intended represents a milestone in movies. Made for little money, the film earned its production costs back many times over. It ushered in a new era of cinematic "exploitation," driven by simple economics. Naked as Nature Intended takes its place in history as the bridge between the puritanical Fifties and the Swinging Sixties.

Believers

Author : Lisa Wells
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716587
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Believers written by Lisa Wells and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An essential document of our time." —Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live? Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts. Believers tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead. Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into ploughshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Through empathic, critical portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond the rest of us. They have had the same realization, have accepted that we are living through a global catastrophe, but are trying to answer the next question: How do you make a life at the end of the world? Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Wells is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope. Believers demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we might yet reckon with our inheritance.

Empire of Ecstasy

Author : Karl Eric Toepfer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206632
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Ecstasy written by Karl Eric Toepfer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A massive achievement. . . . Toepfer respects the body, wants to understand movement as the primary medium of ideas, and gives women the central role they actually played in this aesthetic and intellectual discourse."Marcia B. Siegel, author of The Shapes of Change"

Love in the Time of Communism

Author : Josie McLellan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898919
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Communism written by Josie McLellan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution.

Nudist Camp Follies - Volume II

Author : Yahya El-Droubie
Publisher : Wolfbait
ISBN 13 : 9781999744199
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Nudist Camp Follies - Volume II written by Yahya El-Droubie and published by Wolfbait. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy further fun and frolics in volume two of Nudist Camp Follies - a photographic peek at naturism in 1950s Britain.

Photography Reframed

Author : Ben Burbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000210928
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Photography Reframed written by Ben Burbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a diverse set of photographic territories: the ontology of photography; the impact of mass photographic practice; the public display of intimate life; the current state of documentary, and the political possibilities of photographic culture. These lively, accessible essays by some of the best writers in photography together go deep into the most up-to-date frameworks for analysing and understanding photographic culture and shedding light on its histories. Photography Reframed is a vital road map for anyone interested in what photography has been, what it has become, and where it is going.

Nothing Like Naked

Author : M. G. Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500218713
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Like Naked written by M. G. Nash and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marti is a busy TV reporter in Jacksonville, Florida building her career when her family begs her to come home to South Carolina and stop Aunt Shirley from giving all her money to the Whispering Pines Nudist Resort.Taking a long weekend, she visits her favorite auntie to check out the new place. When she meets Shirley's tall, dark and handsome neighbor, Chuck, she feels motivated to hang around just a day or two longer. Soon Marti is checking out the resort and Chuck at the same time. She discovers a plan by a TV evangelist who owns a mega-church next door. He's plotting to close Whispering Pines so he can have the land for his own benefit. Marti and Chuck work together to discover just what the manipulating minster has in mind. Meanwhile, they uncover a chemistry between that's hard to resist. Challenging each other, Chuck persuades Marti there's more to life than work, and they realize there is nothing like naked to bring a couple together.