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Nudity & Nudism -- Two Essays
Barcan, Ruth http://daphnesensei.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/nudity-nudism-two-essays/
Date Written: 19/12/2013
Year Published: 2013
Resource Type: Article
Nudity is paradoxical - a bodily state that is seen as so banal or matter of fact that it is rarely given sustained conceptual or academic treatment, while all the while most societies subject it to intense regulation via customs, taboos, and laws. Nudity is customarily imagined as a “natural” state - since we are all born naked-and yet its powerful social and cultural regulation means that it is anything but simple or natural.
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