Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Rural girls -- Australia
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Rural women -- Australia
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Country life -- Australia
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Rural-urban relations -- Australia
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Women -- Australia -- Identity
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Sociology, Rural -- Australia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Country life
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Rural girls
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Rural-urban relations
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Rural women
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Sociology, Rural
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Women -- Identity
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Australia
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781409446880 |
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1409446883 |
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9781409446897 |
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1409446891 |
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