Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990
By (Author) Janet McCalman
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Press
31st August 1993
Australia
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Australasian and Pacific history
Social and cultural history
994.04
Physical Properties
Paperback
364
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
524g
Description
An engrossing, highly original and award-winning exploration of the Australian middle class. Journeyings begins with a tram journey-the sixty-nine tram collecting boys and girls from Melbourne's middle-class heartland on their first day of school for 1934. It marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey through Australian private life that commences with the gold rushes of the 1850s and concludes in our own time, tracing the life journeyings of a generation of boys and girls from four of Melbourne's legendary private schools. In an engrossing and highly original exploration of one of the most neglected subjects in Australian social history-the middle class-Janet McCalman has produced a worthy successor to her acclaimed portrait of working-class life, Struggletown.
Author Bio
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next- Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19' in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
