'The Moral Bath of Bodily Unconsciousness': Female nudism, bodily exposure and the gaze
@article{Barcan2001TheMB, title={'The Moral Bath of Bodily Unconsciousness': Female nudism, bodily exposure and the gaze}, author={Ruth Barcan}, journal={Continuum}, year={2001}, volume={15}, pages={303 - 317} }
In the predominantly clothed societies of modernity, nakedness is an exceptional state, especially in public space, where it is, by and large, forbidden to adults—except in strictly circumscribed conditions or as a theatrical, subversive or criminal possibility. As a state often associated with childhood, it carries with it a whole metaphorical baggage around ‘innocence’, ‘nature’, and ‘freedom’ that can, in some circumstances, translate into a bodily experience of release. As Freud recognized…
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