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Topfreedom is a cultural and political movement seeking changes in laws to allow women to be topless in public places where men are permitted to be barechested, as a form of gender equality. Specifically, the movement seeks the repeal or overturning of laws which restrict a woman's right not to have her chest covered at all times in public.
Laws and ordinances barring female toplessness are being challenged in federal courts around the nation. Each lawsuit, if it prevails at the appellate level, will legalize topfreedom in the following U.S. circuits of appeal (from west to east): 9 (California), 8 (Missouri) and 4 (Maryland).
Topfreedom is a social movement to accord women and girls the right to be topfree in public where men and boys have that right. Examples of public spaces at which topfreedom might be exercised include beaches, swimming pools and parks.
Go Topless Day (variously known as National Go Topless Day, International Go Topless Day) is an annual event held in the United States and Canada to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. [1]
Another group, the Topfree Equal Rights Association, assists women in Canada and the U.S. who face difficulties going topless in public, but exists in a state of semi-dormancy.
18 wrz 2013 · Proponents of topless equality assert that laws that single out women are effectively perpetuating a degrading cultural norm towards sexualizing women’s bodies without their consent. The...
equal protection challenges to laws regulating female, but not male, toplessness. Part II begins by giving a brief overview of the topfree equality movement, outlining the arguments for topfreedom and identifying the arguments against it. Part III will summarize the courts’ current jurisprudence concerning equal protection challenges to
