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Fears and fantasies: modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide

By Kate Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2010
ISBN
9781453900239
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1141337 bytes)
Pages
260\270
Time added
2022-03-13 06:35:29

Description

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter One Urban Fears and Rural Fantasies in the Early Twentieth Century: The Australian and Transnational Contexts 9 Chapter Two “Very Decidedly Decadent”: The Birth Rate in the Rural–Urban Discourse 51 Chapter Three Purity and Impurity: Venereal Disease, the Girl Problem, and the Rural–Urban Divide 83 Chapter Four “The Modern Idea is to Bring the Country into the City”: Urban Reformers and the Ideal of Rurality 115 Chapter Five The “Most Dependable Element of Any Country’s Manhood”: The Modern Rural Space and Masculinity 147 Conclusion Modernity and the Reconceptualisation of the Rural–Urban Divide, 1900–1930 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 237 Index 255

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