Californians in diaspora : the making of a local/global subculture -- Wanting to be Lisa : the surfer girl comes of age -- The politics of play : tourism, ecofeminism, and surfari in Mexico -- Surf shops and the transfer of girl localist knowledge -- Surfing the new world order : what is next?
Summary
A history and analysis of the public culture of surfing, especially as it has been inflected by the influx of women surfers in the mid 90s, that assesses the sport's multiple meanings as reality and metaphor in a globalized world