Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures
eBook - ePub

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures

Revealing Bodies

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures

Revealing Bodies

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Coverpage
  2. Titlepage
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. Maps
  10. Introduction: Stripping Off
  11. 1 Sex in Private: ‘Bathing in Perfection’
  12. 2 The Public Bathing Reserve: Disciplining the ‘Insatiable Desire to Pose on the Sands’
  13. 3 Rail and Car Mobilities: Technologies of Movement and Touring the Sublime
  14. 4 The ‘Brighton of Australia’ Becomes the ‘Sheffield of the South’: Knowledge, Power and the Production of an ‘Industrial Heartland’ in an ‘Earthly Paradise’
  15. 5 ‘Battle for Honours’: Surf Lifesavers, Masculinity, Performativity and Spatiality
  16. 6 Making Bathing ‘Modern’
  17. Conclusion
  18. References