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A question of tone, Shelagh Duckham Cox
Employment Contracts: New Zealand Experiences Raymond Harbridge (ed), Victoria University Press, $29.95 I need to write two reviews of this book. The second should be placed on top of the first as a palimpset – to infuse, colour and modify…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, Raymond Harbridge, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Surveying, sketching and painting, Nola Easdale
John Turnbull Thomson: First Surveyor-General of NZ John Hall-Jones, McIndoe, $59.95 With trained professional eyes, New Zealand’s early surveyor/explorers sketched and mapped their way up the rivers and through the mountains of our country. Their journals and art works form…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Issue 8, John Hall-Jones, John Turnbull Thomson, McIndoe, Nola Easdale
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction
This will cause no stir, Lloyd Geering
Honest to Goodness Humanist Society of New Zealand, $10 This is a collection of short essays, published to celebrate the twenty‑fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Humanist Society of New Zealand. Jim Dakin provides a useful sketch of the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Humanist Society of New Zealand, Issue 8, Lloyd Geering
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Shedding light on an unknown place, Lauris Edmond
Maud and Amber, A New Zealand mother and daughter and the Women’s Cause, 1865 to 1981 Ruth Fry, Canterbury University Press, $29.95 Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil Mihi Edwards, Penguin, $24.95 For the past twenty years or so historians and biographers…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Canterbury University Press, Issue 8, Lauris Edmond, Mihi Edwards, Penguin, Ruth Fry
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Undoubted achievements, Ivan Snook
The Biography of an Idea: Beeby on Education, C E Beeby, NZCER, $39.00 Pbk, $49.00 Hbk The Beeby Fascicles, G McDonald and R Benton (eds), Te Aro Press, $45.00 For over twenty years, from 1939 to 1960, C E Beeby…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, C E Beeby, G McDonald, Issue 8, Ivan Snook, NZCER, R Benton, Te Aro Press
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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