An edition of The Body Taboo: Its Origin, Effect, and Modern Denial
(1937)
The Body Taboo
Its Origin, Effect, and Modern Denial
by Elton Raymond Shaw
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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.
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