Krista Comer

Surfer Girls in the New World Order

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Produktbeschreibung

A history and analysis of the public culture of surfing, especially as it has been inflected by the influx of women surfers in the mid 90s, that assesses the sport's multiple meanings as reality and metaphor in a globalized world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347897
• ISBN-10: 082234789X
• Artikelnr.: 30363687

Autorenporträt

Krista Comer is an Associate Professor of English at Rice University. She is the author of Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Critical Localisms in a Globalized World 1
Part I. California Goes Global
1. Californians in Diaspora: The Making of a Local/Global Subculture 35
2. Wanting to Be Lisa: The Surfer Girl Comes of Age 76
Part II. Globalization from Below
3. The Politics of Play: Tourism, Ecofeminism, and Surfari in Mexico 117
4. Surf Shops and the Transfer of Girl Localist Knowledge 162
5. Surfing the New World Order: What Is Next? 205
Notes 231
Bibliography 259
Index 273