[BCMA] Friends of the BC Archives; Fall 2024 Speaker Series Begins September 15th ; "We're really very ordinary people": The Growth of the Nudist Movement in Postwar Canada. with Mary-Ann Shantz

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"We're really very ordinary people": The Growth of the Nudist Movement in Postwar Canada

Sunday September 15th via Zoom @ 2pm Pacific Time
Zoom Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdeGhpjIiHdN2oeymMQZMCKORKBO3xGCp

Nudism found a foothold in Canada in the years following the Second World War, as the fledgling Canadian movement benefitted from a new pool of leaders and members recently emigrated from Europe. In interviews and promotional publications, Canadian nudists projected an image of themselves as democratic, law abiding, and respectable. Conversely, they rejected negative cultural definitions of social nudity as politically dissident, exhibitionist, or perverse. This talk will focus on nudist efforts to establish the movement through numerical growth and public acceptance, objectives that sometimes worked at cross-purposes, with particular attention to the role of leading promoters in the Vancouver area, married couple Ray and Mildred Connett.

Mary-Ann Shantz is a historian and researcher who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Mary-Ann has a doctoral degree in history from Carleton University. She is a contributor to to the edited collection, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History, and has been published in Histoire sociale/Social History and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Her book, What Nudism Exposes: An Unconventional History of Postwar Canada, was published by UBC Press in 2022.
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