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Women past and present, Kim Worthington
Women Equality Power: Helen Clark: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership Allen and Unwin, $45.00, ISBN 9781988547053 Women Now: The Legacy of Female Suffrage Bronwyn Labrum (ed) Te Papa Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780994146007 If there was ever a year…
Tagged with: Allen and Unwin, Bronwyn Labrum, Helen Clark, Issue 126, Kim Worthington, Te Papa Press, Winter 2019
Posted in Essays, Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Bearing witness, again, Louise Wareham Leonard
That F word: Growing Up Feminist in Aotearoa Lizzie Marvelly HarperCollins, $35.00, ISBN 9781775541127 There was an Empress of Austria named Elisabeth – many called her Sissi – a beauty and horsewoman and wife of Franz Joseph, and she was…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 124, Lizzie Marvelly, Louise Wareham Leonard, Summer 2018
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
How we got to where we are today, Michele A’Court
Risking Their Lives: New Zealand Abortion Stories 1900-1939 Margaret Sparrow Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776561636 Dear Len, I am afraid my boy friend is just another dirty rotten Aussie. I don’t think he ever had any intention of doing…
Bustling energy, Kate Hunter
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: New Zealand Women Overseas in World War One Jane Tolerton Booklovers Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780473399658 As many scholars have observed, it is very difficult to write a history of women and war. Not only is…
Getting the archive to the people, Matariki Williams
He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408664 This book is weighty with expectation, what unfolds within its covers being immediately problematised by the title, He Reo…
Tipping points, Sylvan Thomson
First Lady – From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand’s Sex-change Pioneer Liz Roberts with Alison Mau Upstart Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927262375 Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand Education Alexandra C Gunn and Lee A Smith (eds)…
Tagged with: Alexandra C Gunn, Alison Mau, Issue 114, Lee A Smith, Liz Roberts, Otago University Press, Sylvan Thomson, Upstart Press, Winter 2016
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Lessons from history, Bronwyn Labrum
Rough on Women: Abortion in 19th Century New Zealand Margaret Sparrow Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864739360 Someone I follow on Twitter reported that a friend of hers had no idea that abortion is yet to be decriminalised in New…
Tagged with: Bronwyn Labrum, Issue 110, Margaret Sparrow, Victoria University Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Grogzone, Charlotte Macdonald
Wanted, a Beautiful Barmaid: Women Behind the Bar in New Zealand, 1830-1976 Susan Upton Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738943 Conrad Bollinger famously dubbed New Zealand “Grog’s Own Country”. It was 1957. Bollinger was writing under the dark cloud of…
Tagged with: Charlotte Macdonald, Susan Upton, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology