Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans
Author(s): Clare Wright
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.
Product Information
* Author will be guest of major writers festivals in 2014 * Publicity will tie-in with the ongoing campaign for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka * Budget for bookseller catalogues * Promotions and giveaways with feminist blogs and websites
Clare Wright is a historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans, garnered both critical and popular acclaim. She researched, wrote and presented the ABC television documentary Utopia Girls and is co-wrote 'The War That Changed Us', a four-part series commemorating the centenary of WWI for ABC1. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize. Clare lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children.
General Fields
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- : The Text Publishing Company
- : Text Publishing
- : 0.326
- : October 2014
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : October 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Clare Wright
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 256
- : HBTB