| Description |
xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in Australian history |
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Studies in Australian history.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. 'No place for a woman?': pub-keeping in colonial times -- 2. 'The photographer and the barmaid': narrating women's work 1850s-1910s -- 3. 'The problem of the barmaids': urbanisation and legislative reform 1870s-80s -- 4. 'Wanted, a beautiful barmaid...': temperance and the language of desire -- 5. 'White slaves behind the bar': the WCTU, the nation, and 'the barmaid' -- 6. 'When men wore hats': gender, unions, and equal pay 1908-1949 -- 7. 'Beer, glorious beer': pub culture and the six o'clock swill 1920-50s -- 8. 'In praise of splendid gels': sex, work and drinking culture 1960s-90s -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Kirkby weaves visual materials, previously unused archives and barmaids' own recollections into a rich narrative. She shows how gender shaped the pub through the interaction between female bar staff and male clientele, and traces the sexualisation of the industry. She provides new insights into the nineteenth-century feminist and temperance debates on women's work and examines the legal and industrial context in which working conditions developed. Barmaids traces the changing dynamics of bar work through the rush hour swill of early closing, and women's demands for equal pay and drinking rights, to the modern barmaid as 'flexible hotel careerist' |
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Since colonisation the pub has been integral to Australian life, both socially and economically. In this innovative mixture of labour and cultural history, Diane Kirkby explores the pub as a workplace, and the central figure of pub culture - the barmaid |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-230) and index |
| Subject |
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Australia -- History.
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Bartenders -- Australia -- History.
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Bartenders.
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Bartending -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History.
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Bartending -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Cocktail servers -- Australia -- History.
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Feminism -- Australia -- History.
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Hotel, taverns, etc. -- Social aspects -- Australia
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Sex role in the work environment.
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Women -- Employment -- Australia.
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| LC no. |
97017304 |
| ISBN |
0521560381 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0521568684 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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