Women in Wetsuits
Revolting Bodies in Lesbian Surf Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12459386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgina Roy (0000-0001-8670-7362, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 329-343 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10894160.2013.731873 |
| PMID | 23855945 |
| OpenAlex | W2013113512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 40 |
The article unpicks the notion of lesbian bodies as revolting through an analysis of how "women in wetsuits" are experienced as both disgusting and desirable by lesbian surfers. Based on ethnographic research carried out within British surf culture, I consider how lesbian surfing bodies come to be experienced and embodied as disgusting, desirable, and revolting. Informed by interview data and personal reflections I suggest that the affective power of lesbian desire might offer ways in which to disrupt the cultural processes that shame bodies and in doing so enable surfing bodies to revolt
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Lesbian · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Surfing symphonies
Organized Lifestyle Sports in Southern California
Feminist collaborative becomings
Going surfing/doing research
The Critical Surf Studies Reader
Thinking with/in surfing
Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’
Bodies, gender, and digital affect in fitspiration media
Updating the wardrobe
Clubhouses and locker rooms
Fighting fit
It’s what we’ve always done’
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process
Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram
It’s a bit tough when you’re just trying to have fun
Staying 'stoked
Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing
Reframing Surfing
The empowerment of rural migrantlalas
The Anatomy of Disgust
Unbearable Weight
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust
Space, Place, and Sex
Working with Affect in Feminist Readings
American Youth Cultures
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The qBody Project
Homonormativity and the Politics of Race
Lesbian Erotics at Women's Hockey
In/Visible Bodies
The 2002 Sydney Gay Games
Queer in the Field
Disaffected
Queering the Field? The complexities of sexuality within a lesbian-identified football team in England
The Gendered Unapologetic
Seeing Your Sporting Body
On the Limits of “Gaie” Spaces
Firm but Shapely, Fit but Sexy, Strong but Thin
Sporting Gender
Rethinking Resistance
Visible Difference and Flex Appeal
A thousand plateaus
Touching Feeling
Ceramics, clothing and other bodies
Deleuze on Viagra (Or, What Can a 'Viagra-Body' Do)
Sporting Bodies
The Anatomy of Disgust
Queering Whiteness
The Lightness Of Being 'Gaie
The Politics of Women's Body Images and Practices
Women's Football in the United Kingdom
Foucault, Technologies of Self, and the Media
How to Surf
Deleuze and the Body Without Organs
Spatializing the (Im)Proper Subject
Beyond the Perfect Body
Everyday shame
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |