Fears and fantasies : modernity, gender and the rural-urban divide
- Title
- Fears and fantasies : modernity, gender and the rural-urban divide / Kate Murphy.
- Published by
- New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 260 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction -- Urban fears and rural fantasies in the early twentieth century: the Australian and transnational contexts -- "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse -- Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the girl problem, and the rural-urban divide -- "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality -- The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity -- The reconceptualisation of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.
- Call number
- JFE 10-6258
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Murphy, Kate, 1940-
- Title
- Fears and fantasies : modernity, gender and the rural-urban divide / Kate Murphy.
- Imprint
- New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2009046483
- ISBN
- 9781433109508 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1433109506 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 10-6258