TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Kate ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Fears and fantasies: modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide AV - GT3471.A9 M87 2010eb U1 - 307.74 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Country life KW - Australia KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index; Introduction -- Urban fears and rural fantasies in the early twentieth century : the Australian and transnational contexts -- "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse -- Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the "girl problem" and the rural-urban divide -- "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality -- The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity -- The reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2012; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10517005 ER -