Women in Wetsuits: Revolting Bodies in Lesbian Surf Culture

Roy, Georgina

doi:10.1080/10894160.2013.731873

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“…My interviews took a life-history approach, recognising that life-stories can provide insights into different ways of understanding ageing, changing identities and surfing mobilities (see also Waitt and Frazer, 2012: 28). However, I was also mindful that interviews can be ineffective in communicating the intense sensations and affective feelings that surfing participation can evoke (Anderson, 2014; Ford and Brown, 2005; Roy, 2013; Waitt and Frazer, 2012).…”

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Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Wheaton

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Surfing has consistently been framed as a youth focused, male-dominated sport and culture. Despite surfing’s ageing demographic, neither the ways in which age impacts on surfing identities and mobilities, nor older surfer’s experiences and subjectivities, has been given scholarly attention. In this paper, I discuss research exploring the experiences and identities of middle-aged and older recreational male and female surfers in the south and south-west of England. The research illustrates that participation in surfing as a sport and lifestyle remains highly significant for some men and women through middle-age and into retirement. I consider the cultural barriers and challenges in dealing with a loss in physical performance through ageing, such as adaptations to their equipment, performance, and style, and the implications for how individuals negotiate bodily capital, space and identity. Nonetheless, older surfers also embrace different ways of being a surfer which challenge some of the more exclusionary aspects of surfing identities. Theoretically the paper develops an intersectional approach to sporting identity that explicitly recognises and accounts for the contribution of age to social identity. The research also contributes to the growing literature on physically active ‘post-youth’ leisure lifestyles, illustrating how shifting definitions of ageing have given ‘rise to new expectations, priorities and understandings’ of sporting lifestyles amongst those in middle age, and beyond.

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Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Wheaton

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Evers (2015) used a waterproof camera to record and reflect on his own surfing experiences. Roy (2013) recorded interviews from her surfboard with surfers nearby in the water, and Miles (2017) recently video recorded his multiday seakayak journey with in situ reflections and postevent analysis. More often, however, surveys have been distributed and completed at the beach or online; interviews have been carried out in a setting away from the sea, wind, ambient noise, and sun.…”

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Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing: Prototype Cyborg Theory-Methods

lisahunter

Stoodley

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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Bluespace, where water people immerse themselves for thrills, therapy, or thalassography, is constantly fluctuating, influenced by materials, nature, and discourse. Drawing on onto-epistemological aspects of embodied theory-method, we report entangled prototype “cyborg” in situ strategies (mobile, sensory [auto]ethnography, and self-interview) to notice, record, and ultimately create human–water relations, from the perspective of a surfer. Audio/-visual evidence, from multiple perspectives, folding time, and several point-of-view devices, enabled unique insights into voiced thoughts, sights, sounds, and conscious/subconscious practices that occur in surfing. Such insights into the relationships, experiences, and movements of surfers inform research, such as to wellbeing and to the challenges of investigating bluespace. We offer cyborg theory-method for further methodological and onto-epistemological consideration in such relationships, contributing to a growing understanding of more-than-human engagement with watery worlds.

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“…As is the case for all strategies and interventions, segregated sport provides opportunities and affordances and dangers and problematic (un)intended consequences. This article seeks to extend research into the impact of 'gender-responsive' strategies developed to address current problematic trends in the outdoor participation and leadership sectorsissues which have, to date, largely been examined through a critical or a poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical lens (Roy 2013). Critical feminist and feminist Foucauldian studies have provided invaluable insights into the role of modern sport forms in the reproduction of gendered power relations and subjectivities.…”

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“…We see much resonance between feminist new materialist and their orientation towards an expanded relational onto-ethico-epistemology and a growing body of literature on alternative physical cultures (for example, Fullagar and Pavlidis 2018;Pavlidis and Fullagar 2014;Roy 2013;Wood and Brown 2011) which has focused on the affective capacities of non-mainstream forms of physical activity to open up spaces 'to practice, celebrate and promote new collective subjectivities' (Atkinson 2010(Atkinson :1250. This includes attention to the role of alternative lifestyle sports in reconfiguring gendered subjectivities (Baxter 2020;Pavlidis and Fullagar 2014;Roy 2013). For instance, Pavlidis and Fullagar (2014) explored the sport of roller derby as a site of cultural transformation and the ways in which roller derby extends feminine subjectivities through the mobilization of painful affects.…”

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‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

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Boocock²,

Hall³

et al. 2021

Somatechnics

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In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines of territorialisation’, and ‘lines of flight’, we apply a new lens to ask: what type(s) of material-discursive assemblages are produced through human and non-human, discursive, and non-discursive intra-actions on women-specific adventure sport skills courses? To what extent do these courses enable participants to engage with an alternative praxis and ethics and to think, feel, practice, and become otherwise? Our Deleuzian reading showed that the affective capacity of these courses is currently limited by dominant understandings of these courses as bridges to the real outdoors and as primarily designed for women who lack the confidence to participate in mixed-gender environments. However, these courses also enabled productive lines of flight and alternative understandings and practices related to the self, the body, others, material objects, learning, movement, and physical activity to emerge. These were both characterised and supported by less instrumental and hierarchical flows of relations and an openness to not knowing.

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Women in Wetsuits: Revolting Bodies in Lesbian Surf Culture

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing: Prototype Cyborg Theory-Methods

‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

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