TNSF Bibliography • Articles / Art, History, and Religion L—W

Lal, Vinay. “Nakedness, Nonviolence, and Brahmachaya: Gandhi’s Experiments in Celibate Sexuality,”Journal of the History of Sexuality 9.1-2 (January/April 2000): 105-136
Lathan, Angela J. “The Right to Bare: Containing and Encoding American Women in Popular Entertainments of the 1920s,” Theatre Journal 49.4 (December 1997): 455-473
Lawrence, Stanley A. “Art and ‘Perversion’: Censoring Images of Nude Children,” Art Journal 50.4 (Winter 1991): 20-27
Lepecki, Andé. “Skin, Body, and Presence in Contemporary European Choreography,” the Drama Review 43.4 (Winter 1999): 129-140
Levine, Philippa. “States of Undress: Nakedness and the Colonial Imagination,” Victorian Studies 50.2 (Winter 2008): 189-219

McCarthy, David. “Social Nudism, Masculinity, and the Male Nude in the Work of William Theo Brown and Wynn Chamberlain in the 1960s,” Archives of American Art Journal 38.1-2 (1998): 28-38
McDonnell, M[yles]. “The Introduction of Athletic Nudity: Thucydides, Plato, and the Vases,” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991): 182-193
McLaren, John. “The Despicable Crime of Nudity: Law, the State, and Civil Protest Among the Sons of Freedom Sect of Doukhobors, 1899-1935,” Journal of the West 38.3 (July 1999): 27-33
McLellan, Josie. “State Socialist Bodies: East German Nudism from Ban to Boom,” The Journal of Modern History 79.1 (March 2007): 48-79
Morris, Nina J. “Naked in Nature: Naturism, Nature and the Senses in Early 20th Century Britain,” Cultural Geographies 16.3 (July 2009): 283-308
Mosse, George L. “National Socialism, Nudity and the Male Body,” Culturefront III (Winter-Spring 1994): 89-92

Payne, Robert. “Beyond the Pale: Nudism, Race, and Resistance in The Unashamed,” Film Quarterly 54.2 (Winter 2000-01): 27-40
Peeters, Evert. “Authenticity and Asceticism: Discourse and Performance in Nude Culture and Health Reform in Belgium, 1920-1940,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 15.3 (September 2006): 432-461
Polinska, W[ioleta]. “Dangerous Bodies: Women’s Nakedness and Theology,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 16.1 (Spring 2000): 45-62
Portetsky, Rita. “Clothing and Self: Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives,” Journal of Psychology and Judaism10.1 (Spring-Summer 1986): 42-54
Pudor, Heinrich. “Nudity in Art and Life 1906,” Journal of Homosexuality 22.1-2 (1991): 109-113

Rimmer, R[obert]. “Flying Naked with My Granddaughter,” Humanist 35 (November 1975): 14-15

Satlow, M[ichael]. L. “Jewish Constructions of Nakedness in Late Antiquity,” Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (Fall 1997): 149-167
Saville, Julia F. “Nude Male Alfresco Swimmers: The Prehistory of a Nineteenth-Century Republican Trope,”Word and Image 25.1 (January/March 2009): 56-74
Schafer, Edward H. “Ritual Exposure in Ancient China,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 14.1-2 (June 1951): 130-184
Schendel, Willem van. “A politics of Nudity: Photographs of the ‘Naked Mru’ of Bangladesh,” Modern Asian Studies 36.2 (May 2002) 341-374
Schmidgall, Ben. “Joy of Nudism,” RFD Issue 73 19.3 (Spring 1993): 53-54
Sebeok, Thomas. “Data on Nakedness and Related Traits in Hungary,” The Journal of American Folklore61.242 (October-December 1948): 356-363
Seybolt, Robert F. “Dress Reform in Massachusetts,” The New England Quarterly 3.2 (April 1930): 333-338
Siodmak, Alex. “The Only Covers are On the Books,” American Libraries 26:8 (September 1995): 782-783
Sparshott, Francis. “Some Aspects of Nudity in Theatre Dance,” Dance Chronicle 18.2 (1995): 303-310

Toepfer, Karl. “One Hundred Years of Nakedness in German Performance,” The Drama Review 47.4 (2003): 144-188
Toepfer, Karl Eric. “Nudity and Textuality in Postmodern Performance,” Performing Arts Journal 18.3 (September 1996): 76-91

Ward, Ray Brown. “Women in Roman Baths,” Harvard Theological Review 85 (1992): 125-147
Wilson, Liz. “‘There isn’t a man here that I should be ashamed’: Resistance to Indian Cultural Conventions Regarding Female Nudity,” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 6.3 (2000): 138-149