Fears and fantasies modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide /
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2010.
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Table of 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 reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.