- Title
- Australian surfing magazines: boys' zone adventures
- Creator
- Scott, Paul
- Relation
- 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities. Conference Proceedings: 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities (Honolulu, HI 12-15 January, 2003)
- Relation
- http://www.hichumanities.org/AHproceedings/index.htm
- Publisher
- Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Concerns about the relationships between Australian surfing magazines and their reassurance to anxious male readers of the legitimacy of hegemonic masculinity form the basis of this study. Hegemonic masculinity is expressed in surfing magazines through relentless advocacy of the values of patriarchal capitalism - competition, conquest, adventure and individualism. These values are in turn linked to the consumption of the commodities of surfing industries. The study seeks to understand the manner in which surfing magazines form a nexus between patriarchal capitalism, hegemonic masculinity and the aestheticization of commodities and lifestyle cultures. The study will investigate, examine and analyze these factors in the period from 1961-2002. This may reveal that surfing magazines, their representations of masculinity and their relationships with transglobal surfing industries are necessarily characterized by unresolved tensions and value plurality, where the ideological concerns of patriarchal capitalism can be exposed as malleable, contradictory and inherently unstable.
- Subject
- surfing; masculinity; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35462
- Identifier
- uon:3954
- Identifier
- ISBN:1541-5899
- Language
- eng
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