title: Of public houses and private lives: female hotelkeepers as domestic entrepreneurs.
abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, women played a key role in the control and management of the Australian hotel industry. Their importance as publicans has often been overlooked by historians of drinking culture and the liquor trade, due to the representation of the pub as a male domain to which women were either socially peripheral or actively opposed. Rather, the complex spatial arrangements of the public house, where domestic and commercial activities were deeply interconnected, allowed many women the opportunity to earn a respectable and prominent living as hotelkeepers.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia / Q000208:ethnology; D003469:Culture; D004326:Drinking; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006798:Housing / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D014930:Women / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D014931:Women, Working / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology