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UNINA9910819328803321 |
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Autore |
Driscoll Catherine |
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Titolo |
The Australian country girl : history, image, experience / / Catherine Driscoll |
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London ; ; New York : , : Ashgate, , 2016 |
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1-4724-0109-3 |
1-317-04090-2 |
1-317-04089-9 |
1-315-61381-6 |
1-4094-4689-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Rural girls - Australia |
Rural women - Australia |
Country life - Australia |
Rural-urban relations - Australia |
Women - Australia - Identity |
Sociology, Rural - Australia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'The Australian Country Girl'; Part I: Assembling Australian Country Girlhood; 1 Becoming a Country Girl (Gough, Kate, the CWA, and Me); 2 Miss Showgirl (Rural Girlhood and Representation); Part II: History, Image, Experience; 3 The Bush-Girl (a Pastoral); 4 The Country Town Girl (a Soap Opera); Part III: Place and Practice; 5 Subjects of Distance: (Country) Girl Culture Capital; 6 Home Economics (Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do); 7 Ex-Country Girls (a Human Geography); Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. It also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite |
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