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Its Origin, Effect, and Modern Denial

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Its Origin, Effect, and Modern Denial

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368

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Cover of: The Body Taboo
The Body Taboo
1937, Shaw Publishing Company
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Washinton, D.C

Table of Contents

Publisher's Preface. 9
I. The Universality of the Body Taboo and the Present Challenge. 13
II. Religion and the Cultivation of a Damaging Myth. 28
III. The Myth Modified but Damage Continued. 57
IV. The Modesty Concept not Innate but Conventional and Variable. 88
V. Modern Psychology Studies Social Nudism and the Body Taboo. 113
VI. Combating the Superstition of the Obscenity of the Human Body. 140
VII. The Witchcraft Persecutions of 1692 Reenacted in Our Time. 156
VIII. A Movement Noble in Purpose Handicapped by the Superstition of the Body's Obscenity. 195
IX. A Great Social Worker Is Persecuted. 267
X. Anthony Comstock, Congress, and the Post Office Ban. 273
XI. What Shall We Do with Comstockery and the Post Office Censorship Power?. 325
Notes and References. 353
Bibliography. 358
Index. 363

Edition Notes

"Notes and references": p. 353-357; biliography: p. 358-361.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
613.19
Library of Congress
GV450 .S5

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Pagination
368 p.
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6364147M
Internet Archive
bodytabooitsorig00shaw
LCCN
38000710
OCLC/WorldCat
6985396, 2635412

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