This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. From to nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the female body, and the rise of urban nightlife. A struggle to define pornography and art, freedom and censorship, and public and private spheres ensued among artists, theater directors, and moral leagues as a century-long tradition of equating civilization with clothing broke down in the face of performative challenges.
Once denigrated and denounced as a sign of vulgar working-class sexuality, the revelation of female flesh became an integral aspect of twentieth-century French body culture. Drawing upon a range of colorful commentaries, dramatic debates, and evocative photos, Lela F. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.
Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. Institutional Login. LOG IN. Search: Search:. Additional Information. Table of Contents. Download Full Book Cover Download. Copyright, Dedication Download. Contents pp. List of Illustrations pp. Acknowledgments pp.
Introduction pp. Part I. Public Balls pp. Part II. Music Halls pp. The Nue Woman as the New Woman pp. Epilogue pp. Notes pp. Bibliography pp. Index pp. Project MUSE Mission Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.
