Fears and fantasies
Subtitle: modernity, gender and the rural-urban divide
By: Kate Murphy.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433109508
Subjects: Rural life -- Australia; Rural-urban relations -- Australia; Civilization, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Urban fears and rural fantasies; title: "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse; title: Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the "girl problem" and the rural-urban divide; title: "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality; title: The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity; title: The reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.