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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city's central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto's western shoreline."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Access |
Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. CaOONL |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Central Waterfront: Testing the Waters -- Chapter 2. Central Waterfront: Vernacular Spaces -- Chapter 3. Toronto Island: Implementing a Beach -- Chapter 4. The Don River and the Bathing Boy -- Chapter 5. Humber River Encounters -- Chapter 6. Sunnyside and the Beach -- Conclusion. Bathing on the Ragged Edge -- Epilogue. Recrafting the Bathing Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bathing customs -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 19th century.
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Bathing customs. |
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Ontario -- Toronto. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Bathing customs -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Bathing beaches -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 19th century.
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Bathing beaches. |
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Bathing beaches -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 20th century.
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Toronto (Ont.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Toronto (Ont.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barbour, Dale, 1970- Undressed Toronto. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2021 0887559530 9780887559532 (OCoLC)1246170119 |
| ISBN |
9780887559495 EPUB |
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0887559492 EPUB |
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9780887559518 electronic book |
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0887559514 electronic book |
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