As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman,
had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they
were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals
of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate
from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for
fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses
have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness,
for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often
contradictory ideas--it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence
and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between
nature and society. In "A Brief History of Nakedness" psychologist
Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity.
Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing
the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media,
"A Brief History of Nakedness" reveals the ways in which religious
teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used
nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us.
Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and
the media employ images of bare skin--or even simply the word
"naked"--to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to
get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered
that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity
for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something
as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes
complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages
of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady
Godiva to Lady Gaga, "A Brief History of Nakedness" surveys the
touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our
relationships with our naked bodies.
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