Barmaids : A History of Women's Work in Pubs

Name: Barmaids
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521568685
Price: 5050 KES
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ISBN: 9780521568685

by Diane Kirkby

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Studies in Australian History

ISBN-10 0521568684

ISBN-13 9780521568685

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 10th, 1997

Print length 258 Pages

Weight 372 grams

Dimensions 15.00 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Australia 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Labour / income economics Labour economics Hospitality and service industries Hospitality industry

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This 1997 book is a mixture of labour history and cultural history which traces the role of the barmaid over 200 years. Kirkby examines the historical importance of pubs and public drinking culture, including its gendered nature, feminist and temparance debates about barmaids, and working conditions and women's activism.

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.

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