Out West: Perceptions of Sydney's Western Suburbs

ISBN-13: 9780367718886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

Diane Powell

Opis

Out West is the story of Sydney's much maligned western suburbs: how the city spread across the plains to the Blue Mountains, and why the 'westie' stigma haunts the people of the region.

Spis treści

Foreword

List of tables

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The westie image

2 Social demarcations

3 The west to World War II

4 Reconstructing the city

5 Moving out and moving in

6 Menacing youth

7 Mobs, gangs and pushes

8 Into the imaginary

9 Inside/outside - western Sydney today

Afterword: Speaking (for) others

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Diane Powell spent most of her life in Mount Pritchard in Sydney's western suburbs and currently works as a Project Officer with ABC TV.