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Is it right that despite the promises of feminism womens bodies remain at the mercy of state society and religion Should a scantily clad woman or a promiscuous one be worth less than a fully covered woman or a chaste one Are being sexy and being smart really mutually exclusive Can a woman be both body and brain Victoria Bateman has confronted these questions with actions as well as words She has appeared naked on national television on stage in art and at protestsusing her body as well as her brain to deliver her message

In Naked Feminism Bateman makes a compelling case for womens bodily freedom and explains why the current puritanical revival is so dangerous for women Illustrating the swinging pendulum of bodily modesty through the ages she takes us on a journey from the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Babylon through the birth of Christianity and Islam to the lax morals of the medieval period and the bawdiness of Chaucer and Shakespeare to the clampdowns of the Puritans and later the Victorians and more recently to the reveiling of the Middle East and the purity pledges of modernday America She ends with a plea feminists must unite to challenge the repression of the female body as only then can women be truly free