How Long to Read The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience

How Long Does it Take to Read The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience by Professor Catherine Driscoll

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience offers a detailed analysis of the experience and the image of Australian country girlhood. In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. But it also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times. For a long period in Australian history, well before Federation and long after it, public and popular culture openly equated 'Australian character' with rural life. This image of Australian-ness sometimes went by the name of the 'bush man', now a staple of Australian history. This has been counterbalanced post World War II and increased immigration, by an image of sophisticated Australian modernity located in multicultural cities. These images of Australia balance rather than contradict one another in many ways and the more cosmopolitan image of Australia is often in dialogue with that preceding image of 'the bush'. This book does not offer a corrective to the story of Australian national identity but rather a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as a point of dialogue between the country and the city for popular culture and for public sphere narratives about Australian society and identity.

How long is The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience?

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience by Professor Catherine Driscoll is 217 pages long, and a total of 55,769 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 4 minutes to read The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience aloud.

What Reading Level is The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience?

The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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