脱衣多伦多：从游泳池到阳光之滨，一座城市如何学会热爱海滩，1850-1935年

《脱衣服的多伦多》讲述了游泳池的生活，并思考了多伦多如何让男孩们裸体地沉浸在舒适的反现代主义民间人物中。通过挖掘这些空间充满活力的社会生活，巴伯挑战了19世纪的污染和工业化破坏了托伦托尼亚人与其河流和滨水地区之间关系的叙事。相反，我们发现这些区域被增选并改造成了娱乐空间：通常是得到了放纵的城市官员的认可。虽然我们今天认为海滩是理所当然的，但它在19世纪是一种新颖的公共空间形式，托伦托尼亚人必须决定它在他们的城市中如何运作。为了创造一个公共海滩，沐浴需要从19世纪中叶以裸体男性为主的特权转变为男女可以共同参与的活动。这种转变需要就人们洗澡时的着装和行为进行协商并制定规则，并留出或创造独特的洗澡环境。脱衣多伦多挑战关于阶级、城市环境和裸体展示的假设。本书探讨了对现代性和阳刚之气的焦虑，以及公众观念中怀旧的分量，以及多伦多五个环境中公共浴场的市政监管，展示了从传统浴场向公共海滩过渡的独特时刻：城市中心海滨、多伦多岛、唐河、亨伯河、，多伦多西海岸的阳光海滩。
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 nineteenth century destroyed the relationship between Torontonians and their rivers and waterfront. Instead, we find that these areas were co-opted and transformed into recreation spaces: often with the acceptance of indulgent city officials. While we take the beach for granted today, it was a novel form of public space in the nineteenth century and Torontonians had to decide how it would work in their city. To create a public beach, bathing needed to be transformed from the predominantly nude male privilege that it had been in the mid-nineteenth century into an activity that women and men could participate in together. That transformation required negotiating and establishing rules for how people would dress and behave when they bathed and setting aside or creating distinct environments for bathing. Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body. It explores anxieties about modernity and masculinity and the weight of nostalgia in public perceptions and municipal regulation of public bathing in five Toronto environments that showcase distinct moments in the transition from vernacular bathing to the public beach: the city’s central waterfront, Toronto Island, the Don River, the Humber River, and Sunnyside Beach on Toronto’s western shoreline.

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