Beyond the Ladies Lounge - Australia's Female Publicans

Wright, Clare
Beyond the Ladies Lounge - Australia's Female Publicans

Beyond the Ladies Lounge - Australia's Female Publicans

Wright, Clare

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Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's first female licensee, to Big Poll the Grog Seller, the miners' darling on the goldfields, to Cheryl Barassi and Dawn Fraser in recent years.

Handsomely illustrated and weaving oral history interviews, archival sources, folk songs, bush ballads and other popular literature throughout the narrative, this groundbreaking book exposes the remarkable visibility and dominance of women in Austalian hotel-keeping culture.

Author:   Wright, Clare
Publisher:   Text Publishing Co
ISBN:  

9781922182579


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 October 2014
Bind Format:   Paperback
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Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's first female licensee, to Big Poll the Grog Seller, the miners' darling on the goldfields, to Cheryl Barassi and Dawn Fraser in recent years.

Handsomely illustrated and weaving oral history interviews, archival sources, folk songs, bush ballads and other popular literature throughout the narrative, this groundbreaking book exposes the remarkable visibility and dominance of women in Austalian hotel-keeping culture.

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Author:   Wright, Clare
Publisher:   Text Publishing Co
ISBN:  

9781922182579


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   22 October 2014
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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