EAN: 9781433109508

FEARS AND FANTASIES - KATE MURPHY GEBUNDEN

Fears and Fantasies: Modernity  Gender  and the Rural-Urban Divide explores the ways in which
fantasies about returning to  or revitalising  rural life helped to define Western modernity in
the early twentieth century. Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban
space and fears about the effects of city life  few studies have considered the 'rural' to be
as critical as the 'urban' in understanding modernity. This book argues that the rural is just
as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. Using a rich
Australian case study to illuminate broader international themes  it focuses on the role of
gender in ideas about the rural-urban divide  showing how the country was held up against the
'unnatural' city as a space in which men were more 'masculine' and women more 'feminine'. Fears
and Fantasies is an innovative and important contribution to scholarship in the fields of
history and gender studies.

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