AustLit

Surfing and Women

Booth, Douglas. "From Bikinis to Boardshorts: Wahines and the Paradoxes of Surfing Culture." Journal of Sport History, vol. 28, no. 1, 2001, pp. 3-22.

Brennan, Daniel. "Surfing like a Girl: A Critique of Feminine Embodied Movement in Surfing." Hypatia, vol. 31, no. 4, 2016, pp. 907-922.

Murray G. Phillips and Gary Osmond. "Australia’s Women Surfers: History, Methodology and the Digital Humanities." Australian Historical Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2015, pp. 285-303.

Olive, Rebecca. "Going Surfing / Doing Research: Learning How to Negotiate Cultural Politics from Women Who Surf." Continuum, vol. 30, no. 2, 2016, pp. 171-182.

Olive, Rebecca, Louise McCuaig, and Murray G. Phillips. "Women’s Recreational Surfing: A Patronising Experience." Sport, Education and Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2015, pp. 258-276.

Thorpe, Holly, and Rebecca Olive. Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience. Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

Surfing and Gender

Evers, Clifton. "'The Point': Surfing, Geography and a Sensual Life of Men and Masculinity on the Gold Coast, Australia." Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 10, no.8, 2009, pp. 893-908.

McGloin, Colleen. Surfing Nation(s) - Surfing Country(s). 2005. University of Wollongong, PhD dissertation. University of Wollongong Thesis Collection, http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1316&context=theses.

Waitt, Gordon. "'Killing Waves': Surfing, Space and Gender." Social and Cultural Geography, vol. 9, no. 1, 2008, pp. 75-94.

Waitt, Gordon. "'Talking Shit over a Brew after a Good Session with your Mates': Surfing, Space and Masculinity." Australian Geographer, vol. 39, no. 3, 2008, pp. 353-365.

Surfing History

Fiske, John, et al. Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture. Allen and Unwin, 1987.

Osmond, Gary. "Myth-making in Australian Sport History: Re-evaluating Duke Kahanamoku’s Contribution to Surfing." Australian Historical Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011, pp. 260-276.

Osmond, Gary, et al. "Putting up your Dukes: Statues, Social Memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku." International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 23, no. 1, 2006, pp.82-103.

White, Cameron. "Save Us from the Womanly Man: The Transformation of the Body on the Beach in Sydney, 1810 to 1910." Men and Masculinities, vol.10, no. 1, 2007, pp.22-38.

Indigenous Surfing

McGloin, Colleen. "Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture and Country." International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 93-100. http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2671&context=artspapers

McGloin, Colleen. Surfing Nation(s) - Surfing Country(s). 2005. University of Wollongong, PhD dissertation. University of Wollongong Thesis Collection, http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1316&context=theses.

Osmond, Gary. "The Surfing Tommy Tanna." Journal of Pacific History, vol. 46, no. 2, 2011, pp. 177-195.

Osmond, Gary. "Indigenous Sporting Pasts: Resuscitating Aboriginal Swimming History." Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2017, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-55.

Surfing and Technology

Olive, Rebecca. "Reframing Surfing: Physical Culture in Online Spaces." Media International Australia, Vol. 155, no. 1, 2015, pp. 99-107.

Tracks Magazine

Booth, Douglas. "(Re)reading The Surfer’s Bible: The Effects of Tracks." Continuum, vol. 22, no. 1, 2008, pp. 17-35.

Henderson, Margaret. "A Shifting Line Up: Men, Women and Tracks Surfing Magazine." Continuum, vol. 15, no. 3, 2001, pp. 319-332.

Henderson, Margaret. "Some Tales of Two Mags: Sports Magazines as Glossy Reservoirs of Male Fantasy." Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 23, no. 62, 2009, pp. 64-75.

Bodysurfing / Water-play

• Bodysurfing in Sydney, 1902 (photograph): https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/16804151

• Bodysurfing recommended for women, 1905: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237694873

• 'Regulating Surf-Shooting' (with or without a surf-board), Sydney 1912: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/222008196

• 'Shooting the Breakers', Sydney Mail 1906: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164041487

• 'Shooting the surf' (body-surfing) as part of 'Surf bathing', South Coast Times 1908: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142020315

• Two women rescued from drowning while surfing, 1920: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165672153

Early Use of Surfboards

• 'Danger of Surf-Shooting' (mentions use of boards), Sydney 1912: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221997718

• Early surfboards causing injury, Sydney 1912: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241487340

• Manly enacts ordinances against surfboards, 1913:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15392761

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228698435

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228706258

• 'Tommy Walker Says - "I Brought First Surfboard To Australia", Sydney 1939: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127604199

• Using boards in Sydney, 1905: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239512182

Surfing Demonstrations (Ernest Kaal and Duke Kahanamoku)

• Duke in the Surf by Cecil Healy, Sydney 1915: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129344157

• Ernest Kaal demonstrates surfing in Sydney in 1911: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221568416

• 'Expert Hawaiians Give Exhibition' (Ernest Kaal and Tom Carter 'board-shooters'), Sydney 1911: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239103195

• 'Kahanamoku's Pupil Rides the Breakers', Sydney 1917: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221399967

• Swimming: Duke’s Form Reviewed by Cecil Healy, Sydney 1915: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/129354214

Female Surfers

• Isma Amor (mentions use of the board), 1916: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/121176297

• Isma Amor 'The Surfing Girl', Sydney 1917: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122793131

• Pat Trass, first female member of the Australia Surfboard Association, Sydney, 1945 (photograph): https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/98306096>

• Surf-board 'craze' in Manly (mention of Isma Amor), 1914: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120358193

Claude West

• Surfboard Succeeds where Boat Fails in Breakers, Sydney 1923 (Claude West, lifesaver): https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/103542615

• Surfing Dangers, Claude West uses board to rescue swimmers, Manly (Cairns Post) 1923: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40184032

• When Ironing Boards Took to the Waves, Sydney 1947 (event in 1915): https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18051595

Intersection of Surfing and Lifesaving

• Boards for Rescue Work, Sydney 1931: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16806558

• Surfers in Trouble: Good Work on Surf-Boards, Sydney 1918: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221944150

• Local and General News, Surfboards now used on patrol, NSW 1918: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/156907587

• Surfboard Succeeds where Boat Fails in Breakers, Sydney 1923: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/103542615