{"product_id":"9781925095517","title":"Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans","description":"\u003cp\u003eClare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic presence of female publicans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Handsomely illustrated and 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 Austalian hotel-keeping culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans\u003c\/i\u003e, garnered both critical and popular acclaim. She researched, wrote and presented the ABC television documentary \u003ci\u003eUtopia Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and co-wrote \u003ci\u003eThe War That Changed Us\u003c\/i\u003e, a four-part series commemorating the centenary of WWI for ABC1. \u003ci\u003eThe Forgotten Rebels of Eureka\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2014 Stella Prize. Clare lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137515831536,"sku":"9781925095517","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925095517_p0.jpg?v=1763635767","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925095517","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}