Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans by Clare Wright

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Two marks on the back cover are probably part of the cover design, but it's not certain without comparing the book to another copy.

Clare Wright challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing female publicans' enduring and dynamic presence 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.

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 Australian hotel-keeping culture.