Surfing: Women of the Waves

Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2007. First edition, first printing (full number line). Small folio in chiefly blue color phot illus jacket; 176 pages: chiefly color illustrations; 27 cm Fine in fine jacket in archival mylar in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781423601791

To the best of our omniscience, this is the first book solely about women surfers. A lovely copy by an excellent publisher. "As the official counterculture sport of the 1960s, surfing was not just a sport but a lifestyle, with an unapologetically masculine culture. This notion has since been disproved by generations of amazing female surfers who have made an indellible mark on the sport."— Pubisher. Contents: Prologue: Why do women surf? -- Girl on the Shore -- Wipeout: a surfing lesson on the North Shore -- The Sport of Queens -- Makaha -- Inspiration: Rell Sunn -- "The Surf Sounds Loudly" -- "I'm Ready for My Gnarly Wave, Mr. Demille" -- Surfing in Style -- Inspiration: on being Bethany Hamilton -- She Who Surfs Better Than Thou -- Where the sun rises out of the water -- Huntington Beach -- A Season In the Surf -- Hawaiians Unleashed -- The Long (and Short) of It -- Inspiration: Angela Masden -- The Surf Breaks of the Apocalypse -- Surf Breaks of the Apocalypse: the Sequel -- Black/White, Man/Woman: Racism and Sexism in Women's Surfing -- Girls Only -- Inspiration: Zeuf -- Epilogue: on the shore no more. / Women surfers. Surfeuses. Women surfers.