The Interracial Theatre of 'Strip Tents' in Travelling Shows: Spaces of Sexual Desire in Southeastern Australia, 1930s-1950s

Abstract

By the end of the nineteenth century agricultural shows (what in the American tradition are called 'fairs'), were well established in Australia. An enduring symbol of agricultural progress and rural modernity, they became in the twentieth century a vehicle for the professionalization of agriculture and the evolution of European farm women's political organizations.