What Nudism Exposes situates the nudist movement within the social and cultural context of postwar Canada by considering how nudist practices and attitudes both departed from and reinforced mainstream values in changing times. In this perceptive, eminently readable book, Mary-Ann Shantz describes how nudists sought social approval as they participated in contemporary debates about childrearing, pornography, and public nudity. Shantz explains the perspectives of the nudist movement while questioning its assumptions, particularly the defence of nudity as natural. What nudism ultimately exposes is how the body figures at the intersection of nature and culture, the individual and the social, the private and the public.
- ISBN10 0774867205
- ISBN13 9780774867207
- Publish Date 1 October 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English