Episode notes: “The Most Liberated Woman in America”

Naked Age Ep. 3: Nudity for therapy

“I saw more naked stars than any woman of that era!”

For my interview with Barbara Williamson, there was a remarkable wealth of research material to draw from. As this episode covers, the work that she and husband John Williamson did with the Sandstone Retreat in the early 1970s became renowned, and in the years since has been covered in books and films and news broadcasts and featurettes. In some ways, the challenge was not choosing which material to read, but carefully deciding which items might not best suit the purposes of an interview that has a focus on social nudity. In other words, which ones to omit.