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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ... 1
2 Important theoretical concepts ... 2
2.1 The concept of gender ... 2
2.2 The Australian bush legend – A myth of pride, romanticism and mateship ... 3
3 Women and the bush – the outback as a space for a female? ... 5
3.1 Baynton's bush – gothic vs. romanticism ... 5
3.2 Baynton's women – does a female belong to the bush? ... 8
3.3 Shared suffering – analogies between women and animals ... 10
4 Women and men – psychosocial factors of bush life ... 12
4.1 Threatening and disloyal – interpersonal relationships in the bush ... 12
4.2 Muted and dehumanised – what does the bush make out of women? ... 14
5 Conclusion ... 16
6 Bibliography ... 17
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- BA Nicole Eismann (Author), 2015, Women's life and suffering in the Australian Bush. Challenging bush romanticism and the bushman myth in Barbara Baynton's "Bush Studies", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/319158
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