{"product_id":"duty-free-australian-women-abroad","title":"Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: #212b36;\"\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe historian Ros Pesman has produced a subtle, erudite and fastidiously researched account of Australian women's travel from the 1870s - when travel in Europe became popular - until 1970, when jet travel altered the concept of this key Australian rite of passage. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003einnumerable\u003c\/span\u003e travel diaries and letters and interviews, and mindful of her own decision in the 1960s to leave Australia as soon as she possibly could after leaving university, Pesman analyses the different needs and expectations of Australian women of all types and generations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor many, she argues, Europe -Britian in particular - seemed to promise a kind of 'finish' or sophistication they could not attain in Australia; for some, presentation at Court and a refined accent offered a kind of nirvana, guaranteeing security and acceptability; for others - artists and intellectuals like Stella Bowen, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson, Margaret Preston, Shirley Hazzard, Jill Kerr Conway, Jill Neville, the extraordinary Doris Gentile - it promised a kind of personal, sexual, political, intellectual freedom. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGenteel notions of class and femininity were reinforced, while for others new ways of living were made possible. The lives of many of these women are largely unknown, and often astonishing in their variety and daring. What is surprising is the scale of the travel many Australian women undertook. The wife of one Tasmanian premier made 33 separate visits to Europe. In the 1930s three times as many women were going to Europe as were men.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e After reading Pesman, it is difficult to think of a key Australian artist, intellectual or public figure who was not affected in some way by her adventures abroad.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ros Pesman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978698952873,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/9780195536393-us.jpg?v=1679106125","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/duty-free-australian-women-abroad","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}