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

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Autor principal: Murphy, Kate, 1981-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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 reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.