Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures : : Revealing Bodies / / Christine Metusela, Gordon Waitt.
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 rec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Tourism and Cultural Change ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of 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