The Australian Country Girl : History, Image, Experience.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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.

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 a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.

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