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A bit of fluff, Anne Else
A Woman’s Place Redmer Yska Penguin Books, $20.00, ISBN 97840143568087 A Woman’s Place is a small book in every sense. Penguin’s web page classes it as both “humour” and “gift book”. Though it does have pages and a cover, it…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Issue 102, Penguin Books, Redmer Yska, Winter 2013
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Survivor stories, Christine Dann
Abortion Then and Now: New Zealand Abortion Stories from 1940 to 1980 Margaret Sparrow Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736321 It was estimated in the early 20th century that a quarter of all maternal deaths in New Zealand were…
Tagged with: Christine Dann, Issue 94, Margaret Sparrow, Victoria University Press, Winter 2011
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Heroines needed, Dale Williams
Leading the Way: How New Zealand Women Won the Vote Megan Hutching HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869507923 “Tis the glory of New Zealand that her sons were first to see/That there never was a free land where the women were not…
Tagged with: Dale Williams, HarperCollins, Issue 91, Megan Hutching, Spring 2010
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
The other f-word, Rae Julian
Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand and Comparative Perspectives Kate McMillan, John Leslie and Elizabeth McLeay (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736109 Rethinking Women and Politics is based on a series of papers prepared for a Wellington workshop in…
Tagged with: Autumn 2010, Elizabeth McLeay, Issue 89, John Leslie, Kate McMillan, Rae Julian, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Unpretty lives, Alison Gray
Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs Pip Desmond Random House, $39.99, ISBN 9781869792435 This is a brave book in a number of ways. The women who have contributed are brave. Their stories are not pretty; their present lives…
Tagged with: Alison Gray, Issue 88, Pip Desmond, Random House, Summer 2009
Posted in Gender, History, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Review
Legions of the brave, Rhonda Pritchard
Serial Survivors: Women’s Narratives of Surviving Rape Jan Jordan The Federation Press, $49.99, ISBN 9781862876798 It could easily be a Jimmy McGovern script. A “good husband and father of three children”, with a secret lover on the side, stalks and…
Tagged with: Issue 84, Jan Jordan, Rhonda Pritchard, Summer 2008, The Federation Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review
They fuck you up, Andrew Fieldsend
The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary Pakeha and Maori Fiction of Aotearoa/New Zealand Alistair Fox Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877372544 In this academic but engaging study of masculinity in contemporary New Zealand fiction, Alistair Fox of the University…
Tagged with: Alistair Fox, Andrew Fieldsend, Issue 84, Otago University Press, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Language, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Not just good friends, Bill Hastings
Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand Chris Brickell Godwit, $49.99, ISBN 9781869621346 This review comes to you from the backwoods of Ontario. It is a crisp autumn evening. I write this in front of a fire in…
Tagged with: Bill Hastings, Chris Brickell, Godwit, Issue 84, Summer 2008
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Faith and works, Linda Burgess
Women with a Mission: Rediscovering Missionary Wives in Early New Zealand Cathy Ross Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143020501 Be careful what you leave behind you. That unflattering photo could well be the one chosen for your obituary (should you be…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Cathy Ross, Issue 81, Linda Burgess, Penguin Books
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
So far, so George, Paula Boock
When She Became He: A Change for Good John Thorp Cape Catley, $27.99, ISBN 1877340073 When I worked as a publisher a well-worn line about New Zealand autobiographies was that only All Blacks and politicians could sell enough to make…
Tagged with: Cape Catley, Issue 80, John Thorp, Paula Boock, Summer 2007
Posted in Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Memoir, Non-fiction, Review