ENGLISH

Out West

By Diane , Powell

Book information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
1993
ISBN
1863735038, 9781742696768, 1742696767
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2585964 bytes)
Pages
173 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Out West is the story of Sydney's much maligned western suburbs: how the city spread across the plains to the Blue Mountains, and why the 'westie' stigma haunts the people of the region.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; List of tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Australian ghettos; Western Sydney; News and the western suburbs; 1 The westie image; Public perceptions of the western suburbs and its people; Sydney's other half; Research paradise; Inclusion and exclusion; Us and them; Mapping social difference; 2 Social demarcations; Social explorers; Australia's 'shimmer journalists'; 'Snob' social observers; Slummer journalists today; Working-class reflexivity; Reforming behaviours; The westie body; Undisciplined bodies.

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