An interview with Sarah Schrank, associate professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, about her article on the architecture of nudism. Her article is as much a history of the nudist/naturist movement and the way its ideas and how it is practiced have changed over time.

Links to items mentioned in the show:

Schrank, Sarah. "Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs." Journal of Urban History (2012): 0096144211434988.

Photo: The Mason Family's backyard from "The Private Life of a Nudist Family" in Nude Living Magazine #2, 1961.

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Episode LXXXIII