| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 156 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Tourism and cultural change ; 30
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Tourism and cultural change ; 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 theSouth': 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 |
| 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 ci. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Beaches -- Australia.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Beaches |
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Human body -- Social aspects |
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Tourism -- Social aspects |
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Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM |
| Added Author |
Waitt, Gordon.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781282134355 (DLC) 2012009127 |
| ISBN |
9781845412876 (electronic bk.) |
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1845412877 (electronic bk.) |
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1845412869 |
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9781845412869 |
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9781282134355 (MyiLibrary) |
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1282134353 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781845412869 (hardback alk. paper) |
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9781845412852 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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9786613806932 |
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6613806935 |
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