Physical Culture - A History of the West

The magazine was considered scandalous for its pictures of scantily clad bodies, which may explain its limited circulation along the bible belt. Physical culture also plumbed us mythologies associated with the west, praising indigenous diets and midwifery with imperialist nastalgia. Mc faddin published fiction by jack london, reinforcing that fantasy of white masculinity, northwestern exploration and the raw elements. In 19 o five, he rented madison square garden for a monster physical culture exhibition, advertised with posters of muscular men and women minimumly dressed. Anthony comstock, head of the society for the suppression of vice, seized the posters and arrested mc fadden for obscenity. The court convicted him