Blokes and Sheds Jim Hopkins (text) & Julie Riley (photography) HarperCollins, $24.95, ISBN 1 86950 278 7 Back Down the Track Barry Crump Hodder Moa Beckett, $39.95, ISBN 1 86958 672 7 To assert “blokes’” values – albeit very mildly…
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Blue-stockinged heroines, Rosemary McLeod
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Helen Smyth Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228168 Women will recognise the subtext of Helen Smyth’s history as a record of their own families; not the families posing stiffly in…
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Tagged with: December 2000, Helen Smyth, Issue 46, Rosemary McLeod, Steele Roberts
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Standing alone? Reina Whaitiri
Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes Random House, $39.95, ISBN 186941425X Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth Robyn Kahukiwa & Patricia Grace Penguin, $31.00, ISBN 0670839418 Alan Duff’s Maori Heroes features 58 men and women from a range of professions and…
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Tagged with: Alan Duff, December 2000, Issue 46, Patricia Grace, Penguin, Random House, Robyn Kahukiwa
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Gender, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The same difference, Alison Laurie
Feminist Thought in Aotearoa New Zealand, Connections and Differences ed Rosemary du Plessis and Lynne Alice Oxford University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0 19 558356 6 “Feminist scholarship is founded on contestation of hat counts as knowledge and what knowledge counts”, write…
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Tagged with: Alison Laurie, Issue 37, Lynne Alice, Oxford University Press, Rosemary du Plessis
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Refreshing the text, Jan Cronin
Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield, & Hyde Mary Paul Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 71 X, One of the many problems of Mary Paul’s Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield,…
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Tagged with: Autumn 1999, Issue 45, Jan Cronin, Jane Mander, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Paul, Otago University Press, Robin Hyde
Posted in Gender, Literature, Review
Posted in Gender, Literature, Review
Voyages around fathers, Alison Gray
Sons of the Fathers: New Zealand men write about their fathers Bill Sewell (ed) Tandem Press $29.95 ISBN 1 877178 08 X Harry’s Absence: Looking for my father on the mountain Jonathan Scott Victoria University Press $29.95 ISBN 0 86473…
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Tagged with: Alison Gray, Bill Sewell, Issue 32, Jonathan Scott, Tandem Press, Victoria University Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
In for the long haul, Charlotte Macdonald
The National Council of Women — A centennial history Dorothy Page Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books with the National Council of Women, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 154 9 The Women’s Parliament: The National Council of Women of New Zealand 1896-1920…
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Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Charlotte Macdonald, Dorothy Page, Issue 30, Roberta Nicholls, Victoria University Press, Winter 1997
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
What about the suburbs? Alison Gray
Mum’s the Word: The untold story of motherhood in New Zealand Sue Kedgley Random House, $39.95, ISBN 1 86941 292 3 Striking a Balance: New Zealand women talk about career and family Jillian Stewart and Susan Davis Penguin Books, $24.95,…
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Tagged with: Alison Gray, Ann Gluckman, Issue 28, Jillian Stewart, Mary Tagg, Penguin Books, Random House, Sandra Coney, Sue Kedgley, Summer 1997, Susan Davis, Tandem Press
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Hyde and seeking China, Diana Bridge
New Zealand Women in China Tom Newnham Graphic Publications, $19.95 ISBN 0473030055 The title of Tom Newnham’s book, New Zealand Women in China, comes in the colours of the Chinese flag. The subtext is provided by Rewi Alley: “Unsung Kiwi…
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Tagged with: Diana Bridge, Graphic Publications, Issue 22, Tom Newnham
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
“Our own inimitable way”, Miria Simpson
Toi Wahine ‑ The Worlds of Maori Women Kathie lrwin and lrihapeti Ramsden (eds) Penguin Books, $39.95 ISBN 0140147241 How refreshing to find a collection of writing by my own kind ‑ some from my own waka, Te Arawa, another…
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Tagged with: Issue 20, Kathie lrwin, lrihapeti Ramsden, Miria Simpson, Penguin Books, Summer 1995
Posted in Gender, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Gender, Māori, Non-fiction, Review