Undressed Toronto - From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935

Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body in five Toronto environments.

About the author

Dale Barbour grew up on a farm in Manitoba, and worked in journalism and communications before getting hooked on history. He completed his PhD in history at the University of Toronto in 2018 and is currently the University of Winnipeg's H. Sanford Riley Postdoctoral Fellow.

Summary

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 destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront.

Product details

• Authors: Barbour, Dale Barbour
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780887559532
• ISBN: 978-0-88755-953-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries