Tourism and Australian beach cultures : revealing bodies / Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metusela, Christine.

Contributor:

Waitt, Gordon.

Series:

Tourism and cultural change ; 30.

Tourism and cultural change ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Social aspects--Australia.

Tourism.

Beaches--Australia.

Beaches.

Human body--Social aspects--Australia.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores the ever-changing interconnections between bodies, subjectivities, space, beach cultures and tourism, engaging with the geographies of the beach: its makings, boundaries and meanings for the West. Drawing on feminist scholarship, Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt explore the reciprocal relationship between bodies and beaches, focusing on the shifting intersection between age, race, class, sex, gender and national discourses that naturalise particular bodies as belonging on the beach. The authors critically examine how subjectivities of bodies are produced under specific circumstances - the Illawarra beaches from 1830-1940, some 80 kilometres beyond the metropolitan centre of Sydney. Drawing on modernisation and nation building discourses, the paradoxical qualities of the Illawarra are highlighted; imagined as both the New Brighton of Australia and the Sheffield of the South.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Maps

Introduction: Stripping Off

1. Sex in Private: ‘Bathing in Perfection’

2. The Public Bathing Reserve: Disciplining the ‘Insatiable Desire to Pose on the Sands’

3. Rail and Car Mobilities: Technologies of Movement and Touring the Sublime

4. The ‘Brighton of Australia’ Becomes the ‘Sheffield of the South’: Knowledge, Power and the Production of an ‘Industrial Heartland’ in an ‘Earthly Paradise’

5. ‘Battle for Honours’: Surf Lifesavers, Masculinity, Performativity and Spatiality

6. Making Bathing ‘Modern’

Conclusion

References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-13435-3

9786613806932

1-84541-287-7

OCLC:

806204976