Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures : Revealing Bodies.
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Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures : Revealing Bodies.
Yazar:
Metusela, Christine.
ISBN:
9781845412876
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (150 pages)
İçerik:
Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Maps -- Map 1 Illawarra Location Map -- Map 2 Wollongong beaches and bathing facilities -- Introduction: Stripping Off -- Our Approach -- Our Method -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Sex in Private: 'Bathing in Perfection' -- Brighton, England -- The Illawarra Bathing Resort in the Australian Colony of New South Wales -- Bathing Respectability -- Conclusion -- 2 The Public Bathing Reserve: Disciplining the 'Insatiable Desire to Pose on the Sands' -- Bathing Regulations -- Changing Clothes and Dressing Sheds: The Vanquishing of the Sexual -- Dressing-up for the Beach: A Spectacle of Masculinity or Encroachment of the Sexual -- Bathed in Sex: The Gaze at the Surf-Bather as a Sexual Act -- Tanning at the Beach: Sex-Crazed Perverts or Greek Gods and Goddesses -- Conclusion -- 3 Rail and Car Mobilities: Technologies of Movement and Touring the Sublime -- The Steam Engine, Clock-Time, Industrialisation and the 'Tourist Class' -- The Illawarra or South Coast Railway -- Sight-Seeing: A Rail Trip through an Earthly Paradise -- Picnicking -- Hiking -- Camping -- Automobiles and Reconfiguring the Coastline as an Earthly Paradise -- Conclusion -- 4 The 'Brighton of Australia' Becomes the 'Sheffield of the South': Knowledge, Power and the Production of an 'Industrial Heartland' in an 'Earthly Paradise' -- Illawarra Geographies of Economic Modernisation -- Economic Modernisation Discourses and the Beach -- Bathing Reserves and Council Budgets -- Conclusion -- 5 'Battle for Honours': Surf Lifesavers, Masculinity, Performativity and Spatiality -- At the Surf Beach with the Illawarra Branch of the SLSA -- At the Surf Beach with Australian White Heteromasculinity -- 'Vigilance and Service' -- Family -- Lifesaving Trouble -- Conclusion -- 6 Making Bathing 'Modern'.
Bathing Bodies: 'Sexes Mingling Together as Nature Intended' -- Swimming Bodies -- Fashionable Bodies -- Swimsuit Bodies -- Tanning Bodies -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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