Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables x
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Preface xiii
7. Maps xv
8. Introduction: Stripping Off xvii
9. 1. Sex in Private: ‘Bathing in Perfection’ 1
10. 2. The Public Bathing Reserve: Disciplining the ‘Insatiable Desire to Pose on the Sands’ 23
11. 3. Rail and Car Mobilities: Technologies of Movement and Touring the Sublime 46
12. 4. The ‘Brighton of Australia’ Becomes the ‘Sheffield of the South’: Knowledge, Power and the Production of an ‘Industrial Heartland’ in an ‘Earthly Paradise’ 70
13. 5. ‘Battle for Honours’: Surf Lifesavers, Masculinity, Performativity and Spatiality 87
14. 6. Making Bathing ‘Modern’ 110
15. Conclusion 141
16. References 145