"So come on, folks, join the naturists and learn to love others": Nudist Fantasies, Misconceptions, and Discourse in Facts on Nudism (1946).
This article considers a previously unstudied textual artifact, a pamphlet called Facts on Nudism, published in Toronto around 1946. It shows how Canadian nudism was part of a transnational movement that circulated by way of textual culture. It demonstrates how this pamphlet set out to correct fanta...
| Published in: | American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 407 - 426 |
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Dec2024
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