Tourism and Australian beach cultures : revealing bodies

Author(s)

    • Metusela, Christine
    • Waitt, Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Tourism and Australian beach cultures : revealing bodies

Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt

(Tourism and cultural change)

Channel View Publications, c2012

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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References: p. 145-156

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Stripping Off Chapter 1. Sex in Private: 'Bathing in Perfection' Chapter 2. The Public Bathing Reserve: Disciplining the 'Insatiable Desire to Pose on the Sands' Chapter 3. Rail and Car Mobilities: Technologies of Movement and Touring the Sublime Chapter 4. The 'Brighton of Australia' becomes the 'Sheffield of the South': Knowledge, Power and the Production of an 'Industrial Heartland' in an 'Earthly Paradise' Chapter 5. 'Battle for Honours': Surf Lifesavers, Masculinity, Performativity and Spatiality Chapter 6. Making Bathing 'Modern'

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Details

  • NCID
    BB09192637
  • ISBN
    • 9781845412869
    • 9781845412852
  • LCCN
    2012009127
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Bristol
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxi, 156 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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