Bondi Days: An Obituary

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Notes

1 For another recent example of the often-observed cultural divisions at beaches see, B. J. Barickman, From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (University of New Mexico Press, 2022).

2 See, for example, Walter Goldschmidt, The Human Career (Cambridge, Blackwell, 1992) and William Goode, The Celebration of Heroes (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978). For a surfing specific example see, Ugo Corte, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022).

3 See, for example, R. W. Connell, Masculinities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

4 Menczer features prominently in the widely publicised documentary Girls Can’t Surf (2020, directed by Christopher Nelius) which examines sexism in surfing.

5 Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973).