The Body Taboo
Subtitle: Its Origin, Effect, and Modern Denial
By: by Elton Raymond Shaw.
Publisher: Shaw Publishing Company
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Washinton, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Nudism.
Notes: "Notes and references": p. 353-357; biliography: p. 358-361.
Table of contents: label: Publisher's Preface
title: 9; label: I. The Universality of the Body Taboo and the Present Challenge
title: 13; label: II. Religion and the Cultivation of a Damaging Myth
title: 28; label: III. The Myth Modified but Damage Continued
title: 57; label: IV. The Modesty Concept not Innate but Conventional and Variable
title: 88; label: V. Modern Psychology Studies Social Nudism and the Body Taboo
title: 113; label: VI. Combating the Superstition of the Obscenity of the Human Body
title: 140; label: VII. The Witchcraft Persecutions of 1692 Reenacted in Our Time
title: 156; label: VIII. A Movement Noble in Purpose Handicapped by the Superstition of the Body's Obscenity
title: 195; label: IX. A Great Social Worker Is Persecuted
title: 267; label: X. Anthony Comstock, Congress, and the Post Office Ban
title: 273; label: XI. What Shall We Do with Comstockery and the Post Office Censorship Power?
title: 325; label: Notes and References
title: 353; label: Bibliography
title: 358; label: Index
title: 363