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Conversations on sexuality, Elisabeth McDonald
The Women’s Studies Journal, Vol 8, No 2, 1992, The Women’s Studies Association of New Zealand, $9.95 Ten years ago Catherine MacKinnon announced in Signs that sexuality is the linchpin of gender inequality. This issue of the Women’s Studies Journal …
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Elisabeth McDonald, Issue 8, The Women's Studies Association of New Zealand
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
A wealth of incident and language, Harry Orsman
A Fence around the Cuckoo Ruth Park, Viking, $49.95 Ruth Park’s success has come as a surprise to many New Zealanders, and raises questions about how we regard our expatriate writers, or rather how we define them. She counts as…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Harry Orsman, Issue 8, Ruth Park, Viking
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
A wide-ranging collection, Ivanica Vodanovich
The Gender Factor: Women in NZ Organisations Suzann Olsson (ed), Dunmore Press, $39.95 A focus on gender, one of the major contributions of feminist research, shifts the emphasis from biology to culture, from a perspective that sees the organisation of…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 8, Ivanica Vodanovich, Suzann Olsson
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Books against totalitarianism, Diane Hebley
The Conjuror Jack Lasenby, Oxford University Press, $24.95 Winter of Fire Sherryl Jordan, Ashton Scholastic, $17.95 The abuse of power in society – how it is maintained by violence, superstition, and lies – is a major indictment of these two…
Tagged with: Ashton Scholastic, Autumn 1993, Diane Hebley, Issue 8, Jack Lasenby, Oxford University Press, Sherryl Jordan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review, Young adults
Publisher Profiles 6, Rawhiti Press, Rachel Lawson
‘Out where I live, the hills rise steep and harsh from the sea, but on some evenings they seem to light up from within, and the gullies soften and overflow with shadows, blue against the yellow’ – from The Australian…
Women detecting, Margaret Scott
Murder at the Brian Boru Joan Druett, Harper Collins, $19.95 Backtrack Carol Dawber, River Press, $16.95 These two books have some similarities but more, and greater, differences. Both are murder mysteries set in New Zealand with a woman observer/ solver.…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Carol Dawber, Harper Collins, Issue 8, Joan Druett, Margaret Scott, River Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Kei Te Mātāwai Te Tikanga, Charles Royal
Te Mātāwai, Nā Hepora Young o Te Arawā ēnei pukapuka i whakahaere Hepora Young Tuatahi: Te Tira Ahu Iwi/ Daphne Brasell Associates, $12.95, Tuarua: Te Tira Ahu Iwi/ Huia, $14.95, Tuatoru: Te Puni Kōkiri/ Huia, $14.95, Tuawhā: Te Puni Kōkiri/…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Charles Royal, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Huia, Issue 8, Te Puni Kōkiri
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Modernist genius or drunken lecher? Michael Morrissey
Lethal Dose Mike Johnson, Hard Echo Press, $27.95 While official feminism may be liberating and strengthening women, it is having an unfortunate effect on male writers, artists and intellectuals. Many males now cravenly play to the feminist ears and eyes…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Hard Echo Press, Issue 8, Michael Morrissey, Mike Johnson
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
A multi‑media resource, Patrick King
Te Māhuri John C Moorfield, Longman Paul, $49.95 The first textbook of the Māori language published in New Zealand was Thomas Kendall’s A Korao no New Zealand; or the New Zealander’s First Book; being an attempt to compose some lessons…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, John C Moorfield, Longman Paul, Patrick King
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Language, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
A moving figure on a static canvas, Jackie Owens
Crimes of Neglect Stephanie Johnson, New Women’s Press, $21.95 Stephanie Johnson’s first novel charts the emotional wasteland of Beatrice: cellist, mother, veteran of relationships, and, in the eyes of her sisters and ex-husbands, disaster. Drifting from Teasedale to Christchurch to…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, Jacqueline Owens, New Women's Press, Stephanie Johnson
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review