03142oam 2200685I 450 991081932880332120230808211544.01-4724-0109-31-317-04090-21-317-04089-91-315-61381-61-4094-4689-110.4324/9781315613819 (CKB)3710000000186252(EBL)1734062(SSID)ssj0001261483(PQKBManifestationID)12561655(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261483(PQKBWorkID)11321615(PQKB)11234841(MiAaPQ)EBC1734062(MiAaPQ)EBC5208158(OCoLC)948604983(EXLCZ)99371000000018625220180706e20162014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Australian country girl history, image, experience /Catherine DriscollLondon ;New York :Ashgate,2016.1 online resource (212 p.)"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.1-322-43251-1 1-4094-4688-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 Rural girlsAustraliaRural womenAustraliaCountry lifeAustraliaRural-urban relationsAustraliaWomenAustraliaIdentitySociology, RuralAustraliaRural girlsRural womenCountry lifeRural-urban relationsWomenIdentity.Sociology, Rural305.40994Driscoll Catherine.1109384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819328803321The Australian country girl3999971UNINA