Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities

Using the physical culture of surfing as its focus, this international volume teases out some of the complex relationships between surfing, sex, gender and sexuality. It 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.

Foreword [Jayne Caudwell] 1. Surfing, Sex/es, Gender/s and Sexuality/ies [lisahunter] 2. E Hua E: Surfing and Sexuality in Hawaiian Society [Ian -Akahi Masterson] 3. Surfing, Sponsorship and Sexploitation: The Reality of Being a Female Professional Surfer [Roslyn Franklin and Lorelei Carpenter] 4. Multiple Marginalization?: The Representation and Experience of Bodyboarding in Japan [Eri Mizuno] 5. "Mexicans Don't Surf": An Intersectional Analysis of Mexican American's Experiences with Sport [Cassie Comley] 6. Social Uses of the Beach and Relationships with Transgressive Bodies: Being a Female Surfer in Morocco [Christophe Guibert] 7. A Tale of Two Surf Contests: Gender, Sex and Competitive Surfing in South Africa During the Late 1970s and Early 1990s [Glen Thompson] 8. Stories of Surfing: Surfing, Space and Subjectivity/Intersectionality [Rebecca Olive, Georgina Roy and Belinda Wheaton] 9. Queering Surfing from Its Heteronormative Malaise: Public Visual Pedagogy of Circa 2014 [lisahunter] 10. Surfing Ali'I, Kahuna, Kupua and Akua: Female Presence in Surfing's Past [Ian -Akahi Masterson] 11. (Counter)Cultural Changes in Surfing and Surfing Scholarship: Towards Diverse, Intersectional, Liminal, Complex and Queer Activism Dialogues [lisahunter]