Undressed Toronto : from the swimming hole to Sunnyside, how a city learned to love the beach, 1850-1935 /

"Undressed Toronto 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 in the nineteen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barbour, Dale, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2021]
Temas:
1800-1999
Bathing customs > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Bathing customs > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Bathing beaches > Ontario > Toronto > History > 19th century.
Bathing beaches > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century.
Bains > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Plages > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bains > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Plages > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bathing beaches
Bathing customs
Manners and customs
Toronto (Ont.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Toronto (Ont.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Ontario > Toronto
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Central Waterfront: Testing the Waters
  • Chapter 2. Central Waterfront: Vernacular Spaces
  • Chapter 3. Toronto Island: Implementing a Beach
  • Chapter 4. The Don River and the Bathing Boy
  • Chapter 5. Humber River Encounters
  • Chapter 6. Sunnyside and the Beach
  • Conclusion. Bathing on the Ragged Edge
  • Epilogue. Recrafting the Bathing Body
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index.

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