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Australian beach cultures : the history of sun, sand, and surf / Douglas Booth.
Van Pelt Library GT2846.A8 B66 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Booth, Douglas.
- Series:
- Sport in the global society
- Sport in the global society, 1368-9789
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bathing customs--Australia.
- Bathing customs.
- Surfers--Australia--Social life and customs.
- Surfers.
- Bathing beaches--Australia.
- Bathing beaches.
- Manners and customs.
- Australia--Social life and customs.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001.
- Contents:
- 1. Beaches, Bathers and Bodies 1
- The Beach as Culture 3
- Beach Cultures 6
- Culture and the Body 8
- Prestige and the Body 14
- 2. Mrs Grundy and Daylight Bathers 22
- Ascetic Traditions and Clothed Bathing 22
- The Battle for Daylight Bathing 29
- Mixed Bathing 32
- Surfing 36
- 3. Undressed Bathers 41
- Tanned, Healthy Bathers and the 'Skirt' Protests 42
- Backless Costumes and Trunks 45
- Bikini Mayhem 48
- The Sexual Revolution 52
- Nudity on the Margins 55
- Reef Beach: Redefining the Moral Terrain 59
- New Nude Beaches 63
- 4. Valorous Surf Lifesavers? 65
- The Economics of Surfbathing 67
- Humane Directions ... and Dilemmas 71
- From Saviours to Auxiliaries 76
- Lifesaving's Darker Side 80
- 5. Hedonistic Surfers 84
- Early Surfing Philosophy 84
- Surfing: The Cultural Context 91
- The Lifesaving Movement and Surfing 97
- Surfing Styles 100
- 6. Subversive Soul-surfers 107
- Troublemakers on the Beach? 107
- War and Peace 109
- Counterculture, the New Era and Soul-surfing 112
- Baywatch, Black Shirts and White Shorts 118
- 7. Managing Surfers: The Professional Era 124
- Grand Prix Politics 125
- Gendered Politics 133
- Marketing Male Surfers 136
- Managing Athletic and Feminine Surfers 139
- 8. Managing Iron Men and Iron Women: The Professional Era 142
- Mates, 'Pogs' and Saviours 142
- A Sporting Problem 149
- Professional Sport: Raising the Heat 152
- 9. The End of the Beach? 162
- Class, Pollution and the New Promenade 162
- Mrs Grundy and the Moral Cover Up 168
- The Abrasive Generation 170
- Wahines and Commercializing the Culture of Irreverence 175
- Lifeguards: The Death of a Culture 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0714651672
- 0714681784
- OCLC:
- 46393070
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