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Nakedness and Movement Culture Cover

Abstract

The paper deals with a topic which is not very frequent in kinanthropology; it concerns the phenomenon of the naked body in the environment of movement culture. Within the individual aspects of this cultural subsystem (sport, movement education, movement recreation, movement therapy, and movement art), it points out a variety of meanings and contexts adding sense to nudity on a continuum ranging from naturalness and functionality through erotization and sexualization to pornoization of particularly sport environment. The author prefers a functional naturalness of nudity and rejects the instrumentalization and changing human body into a thing and, thus, exceeding the characteristics of the sphere of movement culture.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10141-009-0036-7 | Journal eISSN: 1899-4849 | Journal ISSN: 2081-2221
Language: English
Page range: 95 - 102
Published on: Jan 13, 2010
Published by: Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2010 Ivo Jirásek, published by Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

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