The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 105
... women as the weaker sex , incapable of hard physical labour — exercised a powerful influence , albeit confined essentially to urban areas . Certainly , colonial discourses argued that it was the responsibility of rural women to settle ...
... women as the weaker sex , incapable of hard physical labour — exercised a powerful influence , albeit confined essentially to urban areas . Certainly , colonial discourses argued that it was the responsibility of rural women to settle ...
Page 116
... women were seen as possessing special moral qualities , as filling particular cultural roles . So , while women commonly smoked in the early days of the frontier , by the 1870s this , together with swearing , was regarded as ...
... women were seen as possessing special moral qualities , as filling particular cultural roles . So , while women commonly smoked in the early days of the frontier , by the 1870s this , together with swearing , was regarded as ...
Page 219
... women would be willing to settle in the outback now that they had access to the Flying Doctor Service and the opportunity to communicate regularly with friends and family . Provision of school lessons to their children via the pedal ...
... women would be willing to settle in the outback now that they had access to the Flying Doctor Service and the opportunity to communicate regularly with friends and family . Provision of school lessons to their children via the pedal ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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