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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819328803321

Autore

Driscoll Catherine

Titolo

The Australian country girl : history, image, experience / / Catherine Driscoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Ashgate, , 2016

ISBN

1-4724-0109-3

1-317-04090-2

1-317-04089-9

1-315-61381-6

1-4094-4689-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

305.40994

Soggetti

Rural girls - Australia

Rural women - Australia

Country life - Australia

Rural-urban relations - Australia

Women - Australia - Identity

Sociology, Rural - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



also working as an index of changing times. This book offers a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as