naturist archives of the 1900s

MANAGING THE BODY

2012-01-19T04:08:00.000-08:00

ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928052-0
Writer: Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Title: Managing the Body
Subtitle: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880-1939
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year of Publication: 2011 (reprint)
Format: 162x239mm
Pages: xi+394
Illustrations:15 black and white pictures
Front Cover Photograph: Bathers at the Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, London, May 1932 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Binding: Hardcover in duotone printed covers
Weight: 737gr
Entry No.: 2012003
Entry Date:19th January 2012

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Managing the Body explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939. It analyses the growing popularity of hygienic regimen or body management such as dietary restrictions, exercise, sunbathing, dress reform, and birth control to cultivate beauty, health, and fitness. These bodily disciplines were advocated by a loosely connected group of life reform and physical culture promoters, doctors, and public health campaigners against the background of rapid urbanization, the rise of modern lifestyles, a proliferation of visual images of beautiful bodies, and eugenicist fears about racial degeneration.

Zweiniger-Bargielowska shows that body management was an essential aspect of the campaign for national efficiency before 1914. The modern nation state needed physically efficient, disciplined citizens and the promotion of hygienic practices was an integral component of the Edwardian welfare reforms. Anxieties about physical deterioration persisted after the First World War, as demonstrated by the launch of new pressure groups that aimed to transform Britain from a C3 to an A1 nation. These military categories became a recurrent metaphor throughout the interwar years and the virtuous habits of the healthy and fit A1 citizen were juxtaposed with those of the C3 anti-citizen, whose undisciplined lifestyle was attributed to ignorance and lack of self-control. Practices such as vegetarianism, nudism, and men's dress reform were utopian and appealed only to a small minority, but sunbathing, hiking, and keep-fit classes became mainstream activities and they were promoted in the National Government's 'National Fitness Campaign' of the late 1930s.

DIE SCHÖNHEIT II.-XI. (1905-1914)

2011-07-26T04:48:00.000-07:00

We have just acquired a bound volume of 11 early issues of the German magazine DIE SCHÖNHEIT (1905-1914), the contents of which will be indexed in the near future.

Bound in blue boards with faded gild letters on the spine and front cover, the book has been in fine condition with interesting articlea and numerous duotone and black and white illustrations.

Karl Vanselow (1876-1959) edited it to 1914; Richard A. Giesecke of Dresden to 1932 when he suspended publication of the monthly magazine.

Issues available are: II.2, 3, 5, 6; III.7; VII.7; X.6, 7: XI.4, 6, 12.

DIE SCHÖNHEIT II. 2 (1905))

2011-07-26T00:51:00.000-07:00

Τitle: Die Schönheit, Heft 2, II. Jahrgang
Publisher: Verlag der Schönheit, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien
Editor: Karl Vanselow
Language: German
Country of Origin: Germany
Format: 161x244mm (trimmed)
Pages: 74 single colour excluding covers printed on matt art paper (volume continuous pagination)
Illustrations: 22+ black and white plates and pictures
Frequency: Monthly
Binding: Thread stitched
Weight: N/A
Single Copy: N/A
Subscription rates: (12 issues) N/A

CONTENTS / INHALT „DIE SCHÖNHEIT“

(68) Blühende Äste von Hugo Salus
(69) Morgenluft von Dr. Heinrich Pudor
(72) Eigene Schönheit von Ed. Platzhoff-Lejeune
(77) Das Hirtenmädchen von Franz Müller-Münster
(78) Von der Schönheit der Frauen. IX. Julie Récamier von Dr. Adolph Kohut
(88) „Das Nackte in der italienischen Hochrenaissance‟ (Michel Angelo, Tizian, Raffael, Correggio) von Josef Kirchner
(99) Gebet von Georg Edward
(100) Die Schönheit im Hause und die Frau von Dr. Adolph Kohut
(107) Geschlecht und Gesellschaft.II Schule und Sittlichkeit
(114) In nackter Reinheit. Skizze von Anton Freiherr von Perfall
(120) In Andacht von Karl Vanselow
(121) Stunden aus dem Leben eines Weibes. I von Rosa Maria
(126) Meeresidylle von Carl Busse

BEIBLATT ZUR SCHONHEIT. II. Jahrg. Heft 2

(17) Die begehrenswerteste Frau
(17) Frauentracht und Körperverkrümmung
(18) Die Fächersprache
(19) Der unsittliche Griechen-Gott
(19) Eine internationale Touristenbahn
(19) Familienbäder
(19) Förderung der Leibesübungen in Amerika
(20) Antikes Salböl
(20) Ein neues Mittel zur Beseitigung des Muttermals
(21) Bezugsquellen und Empfehlungen
(23) Anzeigen
(29) Zur Besprechung eingegangene Bücher
(30) Die Heilanstalt Waldof-Elgershausen
(30) Über das Waschen der Augen
(30) Mund- und Lippenpflege

TURNING TO NATURE IN GERMANY

2011-04-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-0015-3
Writer: John Alexander Williams

Τitle: Turning to Nature in Germany
Subtitle: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Place of Publication: Stanford, CA
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year of Publication: 2007

Format: 158x235mm

Pages: x+354 printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper; Abbreviations, 265; Notes, 267; German Archives and Periodicals Consulted; Bibliography, 331; Index, 351
Illustrations: 13 black and white pictures and sketches
Jacket Illustration: Bündische Jugend at the 1919 national meeting in Coburg of the Wandervogel, eingetragener Verein
Jacket Design by Rob Ehle

Binding: Hardcover in duotone laminated dust jacket

Weight: 621gr.
Entry No.: 2008014
Date of Entry: 21st February 2008

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Turning to Nature in Germany is a study of mass movements that aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature. In the early twentieth century organized hikers, nudists, and conservationists all looked to nature for solutions to the nation's political crises. Following these movements over three political eras--the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich--the book shows how manifestations of popular culture reflected the concerns and hopes of their time. Williams breaks with historians who have long seen nature movements as anti-modern and irrational by arguing that naturists were calling not for Germany to turn back the clock, but for the nation to find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of contemporary life and strive toward a brighter future.

NACKTKULTUR (NUDE CULTURE) PHILOSOPHY

2011-04-16T23:41:00.000-07:00

1. In nudity there is class equality.

2. Total nudity destroys the mystery and secrecy of sex, doing away with unhealthy desires and perversions.

3. When people must show their bodies in public they cannot remain compacent about remediable defects and deformities that clothing can mask.

4. Sunbathing and exercise in the open air naturally strengthen the body and give it a beauty that can only come from health.

5. The human organism, expecially the glandular and nervous systems need direct contact with air and sun for proper functioning.

6. Clothing is by nature unhygienic, unaesthetic and undemocratic.

7. It is as important to remove foreign bodies, in the form of meat, alcohol and tobacco, from inside the body as it is to remove artificial coverings from the outside.

8. The improvement of the race in both health and beauty, as well as morality, is a goal toward which all nudists should aspire.

Heinrich Pudor (1865-1943)

(Source: Naked as a Jaybird by Dian Hanson, Taschen, 2003, page 18)

GESCHLECHT UND GESELLSCHAFT III

2011-04-16T23:23:00.000-07:00

Τitle: Geschlecht und Gesellschaft (Gender and Society), Dritter Band (III, 1-12), 1908
Publisher: Verlag der Schönheit, Berlin
Editor: Karl Vanselow (1876-1959)
Language: German
Format: 156x235mm
Place of Publication: Berlin, Leipzig, Wien
Year of Publication: 1908
Pages: xiv+576
Illustrations: 109 duotone and black & white plates, pictures and sketches printed on matt art paper
Binding: Hardbound in embossed lettering and design front cover; to facilitate the binding all 12 front and back covers have been removed
Weight: 1,453gr.
Entry No.: 2009069
Date of Entry: 23^rd November 2009

CONTENTS

This is the second oldest acquisition of the Naturist Library & Documentation Centre, edited by Karl Vanselow, founder of the first naturist magazine “Die Schönheit” (Beauty) in the spring of 1902. The entire volume deals with sex education and life in the late German Empire. Excellent printing on heavy paper.