Sarah Schrank 
Free and Natural [EPUB ebook] 
Nudity and the American Cult of the Body

Support

From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a ‘free and natural’ lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies—and those of society at large—from overwork, environmental toxins, illness, conformity to body standards, and the hyper-sexualization of the consumer economy. How did the naked body come to be associated with ‘naturalness, ‘ and how has this notion influenced American culture?
Free and Natural explores the cultural history of nudity and its impact on ideas about the body and the environment from the early twentieth century to the present. Sarah Schrank traces the history of nudity, especially public nudity, across the unusual eras and locations where it thrived—including the California desert, Depression-era collectives, and 1950s suburban nudist communities—as well as the more predictable beaches and resorts. She also highlights the many tensions it produced. For example, the blurry line between wholesome nudity and sexuality became impossible to sustain when confronted by the cultural challenges of the sexual revolution. Many longtime free and natural lifestyle enthusiasts, fatigued by decades of legal battles, retreated to private homes and resorts while the politics of gay rights, sexual liberation, environmentalism, and racial equality of the 1970s inspired a new generation of radical advocates of public nudity.
By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Schrank demonstrates, a free and natural lifestyle that started with antimaterialist, back-to-the-land rural retreats had evolved into a billion-dollar wellness marketplace where ‘Naked™’ sells endless products promising natural health, sexual fulfilment, organic food, and hip authenticity. Free and Natural provides an in-depth account of how our bodies have become tethered so closely to modern ideas about nature and identity and yet have been consistently subjected to the excesses of capitalism.

€45.99
méthodes de payement

Table des matières

Introduction. On Being Free and Natural
Chapter 1. Welcome to the Nudist Colony
Chapter 2. Naked at Home
Chapter 3. Therapeutic Nudist Retreats
Chapter 4. Swinging Suburbs
Chapter 5. How to Free a Beach
Chapter 6. Naked Lifestyle Consumerism
Epilogue. Bodies Out of Place
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

A propos de l’auteur

Sarah Schrank is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Achetez cet ebook et obtenez-en 1 de plus GRATUITEMENT !
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780812296297 ● Taille du fichier 4.7 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● Lieu Philadelphia ● Pays US ● Publié 2019 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7268405 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
Nécessite un lecteur de livre électronique compatible DRM

Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur

4 457 Ebooks dans cette catégorie