LEADER 03142oam 2200685I 450 001 9910786618603321 005 20230808211544.0 010 $a1-4724-0109-3 010 $a1-317-04090-2 010 $a1-317-04089-9 010 $a1-315-61381-6 010 $a1-4094-4689-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315613819 035 $a(CKB)3710000000186252 035 $a(EBL)1734062 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001261483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12561655 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11321615 035 $a(PQKB)11234841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1734062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5208158 035 $a(OCoLC)948604983 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000186252 100 $a20180706e20162014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Australian country girl $ehistory, image, experience /$fCatherine Driscoll 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cAshgate,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $a"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 $a1-322-43251-1 311 $a1-4094-4688-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aRural girls$zAustralia 606 $aRural women$zAustralia 606 $aCountry life$zAustralia 606 $aRural-urban relations$zAustralia 606 $aWomen$zAustralia$xIdentity 606 $aSociology, Rural$zAustralia 615 0$aRural girls 615 0$aRural women 615 0$aCountry life 615 0$aRural-urban relations 615 0$aWomen$xIdentity. 615 0$aSociology, Rural 676 $a305.40994 700 $aDriscoll$b Catherine.$01109384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786618603321 996 $aThe Australian country girl$93861732 997 $aUNINA