Some like it hot (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Physical activities, fitness, and sports can be considered cultural practices reflecting multiple meanings. The "Sport Culture and Society" series deals with issues intersecting sport physical activity and cultural concerns. The focus of the series is interdisciplinary, groundbreaking work that draws on different disciplines and theoretical approaches, such as sociology, philosophy, cultural anthropology, history, cultural studies, feminist studies, post-modernism, or critical theory. The Beach as a Cultural Dimension is based on extensive research. It involves an original synthesis of material that distills a diverse variety of socio-cultural principles into a succinct argument. In doing so if challenges the traditional view that Australia is a place dominated by a culture of the truth.