| Main Title: |
Man drought : and other social issues of the new century / Bernard Salt. |
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| Author: |
Salt, Bernard, 1956-
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| Imprint: |
Hardie Grant, 2008. |
| Collation: |
x, 324 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., map, pbk, ; 20 cm. |
| Summary: |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Before and beyond Man Drought 1 -- PART 1: RELATIONSHIPS -- Man drought -- The big dry 10 -- Man drought Stage 3a restrictions 13 -- The Fella Filter 16 -- Chances for love in a capital city 19 -- Hot Deflation Index 24 -- Bachelor hot spots 27 -- The Dater Base 38 -- Love and other curious phenomena -- Why wedding rings? 46 -- Relationship 'car' theory 49 -- Meet the Mingles 51 -- Now meet the OFFALs 54 -- When love turns sour 57 -- PART 2: GENERATIONS -- Across the generations -- Meet the Frugals 62 -- The pre-boomer brigade 65 -- Are baby boomers perfect? 67 -- Cynical Generation X 69 -- Generation-Y guys 71 -- The Millenium Generation 73 -- SKI Generation 75 -- Boomer Bank 78 -- Blame it on the baby boomers 82 -- Generation Y gets a separate chapter -- Generation Y and the rise of modern singledom 86 -- Revolting Generation Y 89 -- 'Baby Boomer 101' for Generation Y 91 -- Sick of Ys 94 -- Generation Y fights back 97 -- Generation Y: technology's gatekeepers 101 -- The disappointed generation 104 -- PART 3: WORK AND HOME -- Work -- How the cafe killed the tea room 108 -- Corporate pop words 111 -- Business wankers 114 -- [he pace of work 117 -- Shift in office protocols 127 -- The fearlessness of Generation Y 130 -- HLow to hang on to Generation Y 134 -- The mentor myth 136 -- Thanks for popping into work today 139 -- Boomer command to Gen Y 143 -- Gen Y's error is a boomer problem 145 -- Time to disconnect 149 -- Home and suburb -- The People's Republic of Bernardistan 152 -- Dammed if we do 156 -- Suburban exposure 160 -- Rise of the urban village 164 -- The new concept of neighbourhood 167 -- Baby-boomer houses 170 -- Suitors make a beeline for the bedroom 173 -- Baby-boomer gardens 176 -- Backyard bliss 180 -- Seachange and treechange 184 -- The Australian Kiwi 187 -- D)ream home [9"i) -- PART 4: LIFE AND TIMES -- New values, new thinking -- the F-word 196( -- Spunky vs sassy 19.8 -- S,moking's demise 201 -- The great green shopping hag cwnspiracy 2104 -- ITe mateship delusion 20- -- The obitchery principle 2 t0 -- Redefining middle age 213 -- Frelderlie discrimination 216 -- imne's astronauts 21'9 -- Fashion shift 22? -- Culture shift 226 -- Dem),gdraphics conigbt 23) -- Belief's 20th century rise and fall 233 -- Growing market for godlessness 236 -- Bring on Armageddon 239 -- Future -- Future tense 244 -- The Facebook sleeper 249 -- Future family 252 -- The demise of the baby boomersaurus 254 -- Demographic faultlines 25 -- Don't mention the 'r' word 261 -- Market for doom and gloorn 265 -- Beyond the white picket fence 269 -- Appendix A: [he great Australian singles audit 27S -- Appendix B: The Dater Base 281 -- Selected bibliography 31. |
| Subject: |
Social life and customs
Culture and institutions
Australia
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| ISBN: |
9781740665483 (pbk) |
| Notes: |
Includes index.
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