lisahunter - Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities

Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement cultures. Rooted in a rich precolonial history, surfing has undergone a modern trans -formation shaped by visual culture, commodification, sportization, mediatization and globalization, arguably all linked to sex, gender and sexuality. Using the physical culture of surfing as its focus, this international collection discusses the complex relationships between surfing, sex/es, gender/s and sexuality/ies.

This book crosses new theoretical, empirical and methodological boundaries by exploring themes and issues such as indigenous histories, exploitation, the marginalized, race, ethnicity, disability, counter cultures, transgressions and queering. Offering original insights into surfings symbolism, postcolonialism, patrio colonial whiteness and heteronormativity, its chapters are connected by a collective aspiration to document sex/es, gender/s and sexuality/ies as they are shaped by surfing and, importantly, as they re-shape the many, possibly pre -viously unknown, worlds of surfing.

Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport or gender and sexuality studies.

lisahunter conducts research on, with and for surfing focusing on pedagogy, identifications, practices, events and representations. Recent publications include Seaspacetimes: cyborg assemblages of flesh, water, technology and spacetime using mobile methodologies with sensory (auto)ethnography, The long and short of (performance) surfing: tightening patriarchal threads in boardshorts and bikinis?, Positioning participation in the field of surfing: sex, equity and illusio and Desexing surfing? Pedagogies of possibility. E teaches and researches in pedagogy, health education, HPE teacher education, movement studies, sexuality and gender, ethnography and visual, narrative and sensory research methods. lisahunter conceived the International Surfing Social Hui in 2016 to establish a supportive and activist-based academic network with ongoing meetings and synergies, including those with surf-related community groups. With a southern Pacific Ocean base e is currently establishing the Institute for Women Surfers (South) and welcomes interested participants.

A full list of titles in this series is available at: www.routledge.com/sport/series/RRSCS.

Recently published titles:

92 Sporting Capital

Transforming Sports Development Policy and Practice

Nicholas F. Rowe

93 Rugby Union and Professionalisation

Elite Player Perspectives

Mike Rayner

94 International Safeguards for Children in Sport

Developing and Embedding a Safeguarding Culture

Daniel Rhind and Frank Owusu-Sekyere

95 Transforming Sport

Knowledges, Practices, Structures

Edited by Thomas F. Carter, Daniel Burdsey and Mark Doidge

96 Football Fans, Activism and Social Change

Dino Numerato

97 Rethinking Olympic Legacy

Vassil Girginov

98 Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities

Edited by lisahunter

99 The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer

Edited by Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich and Aline Bieri

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IAN AKAHI MASTERSON

ROSLYN FRANKLIN AND LORELEI CARPENTER

ERI MIZUNO

CASSIE COMLEY

CHRISTOPHE GUIBERT

GLEN THOMPSON

REBECCA OLIVE, GEORGINA ROY AND BELINDA WHEATON

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IAN AKAHI MASTERSON

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