Tag: erica hosseini

• “little hoss” and a call to action

  

  Since writing “embracing their femininity”, I stumbled upon a photo feature of surfer Erica Hosseini in STAB Magazine’s Hard Cover Book, December 2011, that pushes Big Surfing’s fetishized “feminine” to it’s most hyper-sexualized yet. STAB ostensibly tries to get away with this image by using a play on Hosseini’s last name, a double entendre, a…

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  December 16, 2011

  Feminism, Surfing

  boys, Cori Schumacher, erica hosseini, femininity, Feminism, masculinity, men, Stab magazine, surfing, third wave feminism. ironic sexism

• “embracing their femininity”

  

    Three of the top five ladies chosen in this year’s Surfer Poll Awards have bared glistening, bronzed bodies to the world in nearly naked poses that range from playful and flirty to sexual and seductive. The only reason Alana trumped Sally Fitzgibbons in the polls is because Fitzgibbons didn’t get her skin-show on before…

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  December 8, 2011

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Feminism, History, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, Big Surfing, Cori Schumacher, erica hosseini, femininity, Feminism, fetish, fetishism, masculinity, objectification, Stab magazine, surfer magazine, surfers poll awards, surfing, third wave feminism, trivialization of women