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Nudity : a cultural anatomy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barcan, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Nudity > Social aspects.
Sex symbolism.
Online Access:Table of contents
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.