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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 10 November 1997
- ISBN 9780521568685
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 229x152x14 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This 1997 book is a mixture of cultural and labour history which traces the role of barmaids and Australian drinking culture.
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Popular imagination has made the pub an enduring cultural icon in Australian life. Since colonisation the pub has played a quintessential part in Australian life, both socially and economically. In this mixture of labour history and cultural history, first published in 1997, Diane Kirkby explores the central figure of the barmaid. Now a dying breed, she once played the combined roles of mate, confidante, surrogate-mother and sexual object. Drawing on previously unused archives, documentary sources and oral history, Barmaids traces the sexualisation of the industry and the feminist and temperance debates about it. It covers women's demands for equal pay and drinking rights in the post-war period and concludes in the mid-1990s with the labour market changes and drinking customs which saw the end of the old pub culture and the place of barmaids within it.
'... fascinating and highly readable ... meticulously researched.' Panorama
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. 'No place for a woman?': pub-keeping in colonial times; 2. 'The photographer and the barmaid': narrating women's work 1850s-1910s; 3. 'The problem of the barmaids': urbanisation and legislative reform 1870s-80s; 4. 'Wanted, a beautiful barmaid...': temperance and the language of desire; 5. 'White slaves behind the bar': the WCTU, the nation, and 'the barmaid'; 6. 'When men wore hats': gender, unions, and equal pay 1908-49; 7. 'Beer, glorious beer': pub culture and the six o'clock swill 1920-50s; 8. 'In praise of splendid gels': sex, work and drinking culture 1960s-90s; Epilogue.
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