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Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Figurationen. Schriften zur Zivilisations- und Prozesstheorie, 12
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Barbara Gornicka presents a sociological investigation - both
historical and contemporary - into the problems surrounding naked
bodies. She draws on her own participation in a nudist swimming
club and goes on to study the often very complex and paradoxical
emotions that have been associated with nakedness in the Western
world for centuries. The book provides answers not only to why we
find exposing our naked bodies shameful, but also why we find it
sexual and erotic in the first place. It looks beneath taboos
surrounding nakedness today and offers a theoretical explanation
for their development over time. On the basis of her historical
analysis, the author demonstrates that it was not until the late
nineteenth or twentieth century that we began to see nudity as
erotic.
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