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



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Autore: Driscoll Catherine Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Australian country girl : history, image, experience / / Catherine Driscoll Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910786618603321
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