The Australian country girl : history, image, experience / / Catherine Driscoll
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Ashgate, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.40994 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rural girls - Australia |
| Rural women - Australia | |
| Country life - Australia | |
| Rural-urban relations - Australia | |
| Women - Australia - Identity | |
| Sociology, Rural - Australia | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Australian country girl |
| ISBN: | 1-4724-0109-3 |
| 1-317-04090-2 | |
| 1-317-04089-9 | |
| 1-315-61381-6 | |
| 1-4094-4689-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819328803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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