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Author Comer, Krista.

Title Surfer girls in the new world order / Krista Comer
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women surfers -- United States
Women surfers -- Mexico
Surfing -- Social aspects -- United States
Surfing -- Social aspects -- Mexico
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Surfing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Surfing -- Social aspects.
Women surfers.
Mexico.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0822393158
9780822393153
1283065703
9781283065702