The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Human Geography, Anthropology
Cover of the book The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience by Catherine Driscoll, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Catherine Driscoll ISBN: 9781317040897
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 23, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Catherine Driscoll
ISBN: 9781317040897
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 23, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. 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. But 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. For a long period in Australian history, well before Federation and long after it, public and popular culture openly equated 'Australian character' with rural life. This image of Australian-ness sometimes went by the name of the 'bush man', now a staple of Australian history. This has been counterbalanced post World War II and increased immigration, by an image of sophisticated Australian modernity located in multicultural cities. These images of Australia balance rather than contradict one another in many ways and the more cosmopolitan image of Australia is often in dialogue with that preceding image of 'the bush'. This book does not offer a corrective to the story of Australian national identity but rather 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 a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. 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. But 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. For a long period in Australian history, well before Federation and long after it, public and popular culture openly equated 'Australian character' with rural life. This image of Australian-ness sometimes went by the name of the 'bush man', now a staple of Australian history. This has been counterbalanced post World War II and increased immigration, by an image of sophisticated Australian modernity located in multicultural cities. These images of Australia balance rather than contradict one another in many ways and the more cosmopolitan image of Australia is often in dialogue with that preceding image of 'the bush'. This book does not offer a corrective to the story of Australian national identity but rather 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 a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Disabled Children by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Cyberspace Crime by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Cooperation in Modern Society by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Women, Peace and Security by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Look East to Act East Policy by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Comic Alphabets by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book The Reform of UK Personal Property Security Law by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals) by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Distance Training by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Using Surveys to Value Public Goods by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Variation in Linguistic Systems by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Soundaround by Catherine Driscoll
Cover of the book Metamorphosis by Catherine Driscoll
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy