- Title
- Chicks on sticks in flicks: women, surfing, celluloid
- Creator
- Scott, Paul
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Vol. 10, Issue 1, p. 77-106
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/jigs/issues/volume10number1.html#Scott
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- This paper seeks to examine and analyse the manner in which three coming-of-age or rites-of-passage films - Gidget (1959), Puberty Blues (1981) and Blue Crush (2002) - seek to portray the relationship between female adolescence and surfing. In a sport that remains predominant;y white, middle class and male - recreationally, professionally and in its key representations - these three films provide historians and cultural analysts with a suitable terrain to explore that relationship through focusing a lens on the interaction between content and context. Surfing's relationship to sex and gender appears to crash onto the shore of popular culture in waves of inconsistence, contradiction and extremes. Scholarly examination is warranted to further our understanding of gender issues, female adolescence, patriarchal anxiety and the shifting cultural significance of the surfing lifestyle.
- Subject
- coming-of-age; rites-of-passage; female adolescence; surfing; sex and gender
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34737
- Identifier
- uon:3672
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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