Preface: the day i got (almost) naked in public
Introduction : visual rhetoric and the sexual body
Nudity, communication, and the first amendment
The naturist photography of Jock Sturges
The confrontational nudity of Milo Moiré
Femen and the rhetoric of topless protest
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy's retrieval of shock performance art
Ritualistic nudity during Mardi Gras
Leather pride at the Folsom Street fair
Conclusion: the public body
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