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Not settled yet, Claudia Jardine

Posted on December 7, 2016 by NZ Books

Christchurch Ruptures Katie Pickles BWB Texts, $15.00, ISBN 9780908321292 Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston (eds) Clerestory Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780992251758 When the time came to decide what I would do after…

Tagged with: BWB Texts, Claudia Jardine, Clerestory Press, Issue 116, James Norcliffe, Joanna Preston, Katie Pickles, Summer 2016
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology

Making women visible, Katie Pickles

Posted on June 10, 2016 by NZ Books

A History of New Zealand Women Barbara Brookes Bridget Williams Books, $70.00, ISBN 9780908321452 Locating women in history is difficult. New Zealand women are present through the occasional mention in books, official records and newspaper stories but, because they were…

Tagged with: Barbara Brookes, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 114, Katie Pickles, Winter 2016
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

Silenced voices, Malcolm Campbell

Posted on June 1, 2002 by NZ Books

Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History ed Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877276324 It is a truism that migration history steps into the limelight when immigration is at its most contentious…

Tagged with: Issue 58, Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Malcolm Campbell, Winter 2002
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

They also serve, Katie Pickles

Posted on December 1, 2001 by NZ Books

Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two ed Jim Sullivan HarperCollins, $34.95, ISBN 186950416X High Flyers: Celebrating the Extraordinary Women of the RNZAF 1977-2002 Bee Dawson Penguin, $34.95, ISBN 0143018221 Being in the military…

Tagged with: Bee Dawson, HarperCollins, Issue 56, Jim Sullivan, Katie Pickles, Penguin, Summer 2001
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, War