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Challenged and challenging, Margaret Tennant

Posted on December 1, 2000 by NZ Books

Politics in the Playground Helen May Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, $39.95, ISBN 1877242187 “Unfortunate Folk”: Essays on Mental Health Treatment 1863-1992 ed Barbara Brookes and Jane Thomson Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 187727609X New…

Tagged with: Barbara Brookes, Bridget Williams Books, Helen May, Issue 52, Jane Thomson, Margaret Tennant, Marie Connolly, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Otago University Press, Oxford University Press, Summer 2002
Posted in Education, Health, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Rocking the cradle, Kath Bennett

Posted on March 5, 1998 by NZ Books

The Discovery of Early Childhood Helen May Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books co-published with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research $39.95 ISBN 1 86940 166 2 The Next Generation: Childrearing in New Zealand Jane & James Ritchie…

Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Dunmore Press Penguin Books, Helen May, Issue 32, James Ritchie, Jane Ritchie, Kath Bennett, NZCER, Sue Middleton
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Twenty-five women spanning two generations, Rosemary du Plessis

Posted on July 1, 1992 by NZ Books

Minding Children: Managing Men: Conflict and Compromise in the Lives of Postwar Pakeha Women Helen May, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1992, $34.95 Did Pakeha women after the Second World War happily retreat into their home – tying on their aprons,…

Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Helen May, Issue 5, Rosemary du Plessis, Winter 1992
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology