TOURISM AND AUSTRALIAN BEACH CULTURES: REVEALING BODIES

摘要

Products of cultural, political, economic, and social relationships, Australia's beaches underwent profound changes around the beginning of the twentieth century. In Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures, Metusela and Waitt examine these changes in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The pair makes a valuable contribution to the literature, especially in their analysis of the sexual presentation and public performances of surfbathers and sunbathers as they transformed the colonial beach, where bathers hid from public view, into a modern, sexually visible form.