The Australian country girl : history, image, experience /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Driscoll, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Temas:
Rural girls > Australia.
Rural women > Australia.
Country life > Australia.
Rural-urban relations > Australia.
Women > Australia > Identity.
Sociology, Rural > Australia.
Femmes en milieu rural > Australie.
Relations villes-campagnes > Australie.
Femmes > Australie > Identité.
Sociologie rurale > Australie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Country life
Rural girls
Rural-urban relations
Rural women
Sociology, Rural
Women > Identity
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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