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Naked Germany: Health, Race and the Nation

Autor Chad Ross
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2004
Twentieth-century efforts to create a fit and racially pure Germany, most clearly evident in the policies of Nazi Germany, tended to focus almost entirely on re-forming the national body while paying little attention to the personal body. The Freikrperkultur, or nudist, movement, is an important and unique exception, in that it focused on the personal body as a means of reinvigorating and regenerating the larger national or racial body. Naked Germany provides the first comprehensive history of the Freikrperkultur, a movement that anticipated Nazi ideology in many ways.From its earliest days at the turn of the century, nudism was conceived and practiced as a means by which the German race could reform itself, one person at a time, into a racially purer, better people. Contemporary observers believed that, physically and psychologically, Germans were becoming a degenerate Volk. The nudist formula for personal and racial regeneration was first to create healthy Germans by curing and preventing disease and moral hypocrisy through heavy doses of nudity, sunlight and air. The now healthy and beautiful Germans could then begin to replenish their national stock through better mate selection and marriages, ultimately breeding a racially pure and natural Volk, more akin to their distant Germanic ancestors. Nudist ideology was a potent combination of Darwinism, vlkisch nationalism and nature therapy - all deeply rooted in racial theory and designed to transform Germany into a nudist, racial utopia. In considering this often-overlooked aspect of German culture, Ross sheds new light on the popularity of Nazi theories of racial hygiene and the history of the body.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859738665
ISBN-10: 1859738664
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 18 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:English.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Also available in hardback, 9781859738610 £50.00 (December, 2004)

Notă biografică

Chad Ross is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University.

Cuprins

Introduction: The Decline of the Germans * Nudism and Nudists * Pastors, Priests, Nazis and Police: The Moral and Political Campaigns Against Nacktkultur * Theoretical Constructions of the Healthy Body * The Healthy Body * The Beautiful Body * The Nudist Woman * Sex, Race and Nudism * Epilogue * Bibliography

Recenzii

Ross's visits to over a dozen federal, state and local archives in Germany, have ... uncovered a wealth of new material on the history of German nudism.