| Description |
xxiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Sport in the global society, 1368-9789 ; no. 28 |
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Sport in the global society ; 28
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| Contents |
1. Beaches, Bathers and Bodies -- 2. Mrs. Grundy and Daylight Bathers -- 3. Undressed Bathers -- 4. Valorous Surf Lifesavers? -- 5. Hedonistic Surfers -- 6. Subversive Soul-surfers -- 7. Managing Surfers: The Professional Era -- 8. Managing Iron Men and Iron Women: The Professional Era -- 9. The End of the Beach? |
| Summary |
"In Australian Beach Cultures Douglas Booth examines the history of surf and sunbathers, surf lifesavers and surfers (boardriders), with particular emphasis on how they use their bodies to distinguish their cultures. Bodies are also critical sites at which social, political and economic conditions and circumstances converge and determine actions and behaviours, including different public presentations of bodies. In this sense, Australian Beach Cultures is also a social history which traces the influence of broader social conditions on surf and sunbathers, surfers and surf lifesavers at different points in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233] -247) and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print edition |
| Subject |
Bathing customs -- Australia.
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Surfers -- Australia -- Social life and customs.
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Bathing beaches -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
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| LC no. |
2001028807 |
| ISBN |
0714651672 |
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0714681784 paperback |
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