Women in Wetsuits

Revolting Bodies in Lesbian Surf Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12459386
AutoresGeorgina Roy (0000-0001-8670-7362, University of Brighton, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen17
Número3-4
Páginas329-343
Fecha de publicación2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10894160.2013.731873
PMID23855945
OpenAlexW2013113512
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas40

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