Gender, Class and Sexuality in Contemporary Australia.
Over the past decade, a dominant figure in Australian sociocultural constructions has been that of ‘the bogan’, which, although capricious, has typically been deployed as a negative descriptor of the white working-class poor. In this paper, we examine media representations of this ubiquitous figure...
| Published in: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 28; no. 78; pp. 348 - 364 |
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Dec2013
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