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Nakedness Is Cultural, Not Natural
- Bateman argues nakedness is a cultural concept created once humans began wearing clothes, not a natural default.
- She notes hunter-gatherer societies and ancient art treated naked bodies as normal and unshameful.
From Classed Teenager To Naked Protestor
- Victoria Bateman describes growing up in Oldham and being written off as a teenage girl, which pushed her to seek respectability through education and clothing.
- She later shed clothes in protest to reclaim dignity and show that a woman's body and brain coexist.
Early Cultures Varied On Veiling
- Ancient Babylon and Egypt show early diversity: women often worked and appeared unveiled in public and goddesses were depicted naked.
- By the 2nd millennium BC some Middle Eastern laws began enforcing veiling to mark respectable women and punish others.