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Wanted, a beautiful barmaid : women behind the bar in New Zealand, 1830-1976 / Susan Upton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013 Description: 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780864738943 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.8740820993 23
Contents:
I. Under no restrictions, grog shops and accommodation houses, 1830-1859 -- II. Barmaids on the Goldfields, 1860-1873 -- III. Women behind the bar, a disgrace to civilisation, 1874-1881 -- IV. Respectability, the WCTU anti-barmaid campaign, 1882-1894 -- V. Prohibition takes hold of the masses, 1894-1910 -- VI. The register, 1911-1938 -- VII. Women licensees are like men, good, bad and different, 1939-1961 -- VIII. 'Controlling these women', the barmaids return, 1962-1976.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 641.8740820993 UPT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A511618B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Under no restrictions, grog shops and accommodation houses, 1830-1859 -- II. Barmaids on the Goldfields, 1860-1873 -- III. Women behind the bar, a disgrace to civilisation, 1874-1881 -- IV. Respectability, the WCTU anti-barmaid campaign, 1882-1894 -- V. Prohibition takes hold of the masses, 1894-1910 -- VI. The register, 1911-1938 -- VII. Women licensees are like men, good, bad and different, 1939-1961 -- VIII. 'Controlling these women', the barmaids return, 1962-1976.

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