"Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town
This paper draws upon Hubbard's (1999, p. 57) term ‘scary heterosexualities,’ that is non-normative heterosexuality, in the context of the rural drawing on data from fieldwork in the remote Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie. Our focus is ‘the skimpie’ – a female barmaid who serves in...
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| description | This paper draws upon Hubbard's (1999, p. 57) term ‘scary heterosexualities,’ that is non-normative heterosexuality, in the context of the rural drawing on data from fieldwork in the remote Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie. Our focus is ‘the skimpie’ – a female barmaid who serves in her underwear and who, in both historical and contemporary times, is strongly associated with rural mining communities. Interviews with skimpies and local residents as well as participant observation reveal how potential fears and anxieties about skimpies are managed. We identify the discursive and spatial processes by which skimpie work is contained in Kalgoorlie so that the potential scariness ‘the skimpie’ represents to the rural is muted and buttressed in terms of a more conventional and less threatening rural heterosexuality. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-169652017-09-13T15:42:21Z "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town Pini, Barbara Mayes, Robyn Boyer, K. Heterosexuality Sex-workers Australia Mining Rural This paper draws upon Hubbard's (1999, p. 57) term ‘scary heterosexualities,’ that is non-normative heterosexuality, in the context of the rural drawing on data from fieldwork in the remote Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie. Our focus is ‘the skimpie’ – a female barmaid who serves in her underwear and who, in both historical and contemporary times, is strongly associated with rural mining communities. Interviews with skimpies and local residents as well as participant observation reveal how potential fears and anxieties about skimpies are managed. We identify the discursive and spatial processes by which skimpie work is contained in Kalgoorlie so that the potential scariness ‘the skimpie’ represents to the rural is muted and buttressed in terms of a more conventional and less threatening rural heterosexuality. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16965 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.06.002 Elsevier Ltd restricted |
| spellingShingle | Heterosexuality Sex-workers Australia Mining Rural Pini, Barbara Mayes, Robyn Boyer, K. "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title | "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title_full | "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title_fullStr | "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title_short | "Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town |
| title_sort | "scary" heterosexualities in a rural australian mining town |
| topic | Heterosexuality Sex-workers Australia Mining Rural |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16965 |