ISBN:
9780714651675
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Australian Beach Cultures : The History of Sun, Sand and Surf
DDC:
306.480994
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; AUSTRALIAN BEACH CULTURES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Measurements and Units; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; 1. Beaches, Bathers and Bodies; The Beach as Culture; Beach Cultures; Culture and the Body; Prestige and the Body; Synopsis; 2. Mrs Grundy and Daylight Bathers; Ascetic Traditions and Clothed Bathing; The Battle for Daylight Bathing; Mixed Bathing; Surfing; 3. Undressed Bathers; Tanned, Healthy Bathers and the 'Skirt' Protests; Backless Costumes and Trunks; Bikini Mayhem; The Sexual Revolution
Description / Table of Contents:
Nudity on the MarginsReef Beach: Redefining the Moral Terrain; New Nude Beaches; 4. Valorous Surf Lifesavers?; The Economics of Surfbathing; Humane Directions ... and Dilemmas; From Saviours to Auxiliaries; Lifesaving's Darker Side; 5. Hedonistic Surfers; Early Surfing Philosophy; Surfing: The Cultural Context; The Lifesaving Movement and Surfing; Surfing Styles; 6. Subversive Soul-surfers; Troublemakers on the Beach?; War and Peace; Counterculture, the New Era and Soul-surfing; Baywatch, Black Shirts and White Shorts; 7. Managing Surfers: The Professional Era; Grand Prix Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Gendered PoliticsMarketing Male Surfers; Managing Athletic and Feminine Surfers; 8. Managing Iron Men and Iron Women: The Professional Era; Mates, 'Pogs' and Saviours; A Sporting Problem; Professional Sport: Raising the Heat; 9. The End of the Beach?; Class, Pollution and the New Promenade; Mrs Grundy and the Moral Cover Up; The Abrasive Generation; Wahines and Commercializing the Culture of Irreverence; Lifeguards: The Death of a Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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