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Strength of character, Jenny Buist
Against the Tide Fleur Beale, HarperCollins (Tui), $12.95 A Time To Choose Jacqui Sutton Beets, HarperCollins (Tui), $14.95 At a time of high consciousness over whether the central characters of new teenage fiction are female or male it is encouraging…
Tagged with: Fleur Beale, HarperCollins, Issue 10, Jacqui Sutton Beets, Jenny Buist, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Young adults
Charting life and death, Rebecca Simpson
Daisy and Lily Renée, Penguin, $24.95 The blurb on the back of Renée’s new novel, Daisy and Lily, announces that ‘Renée has created a world which is part biography, part elegy, part robust stand-up comedy, all leavened with lively good…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Penguin, Rebecca Simpson, Renée, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Challenges, Marny Bradley
Nearly Seventeen: New Zealand Stories Tessa Duder (ed), Penguin, $19.95 These seventeen stories by New Zealand writers and one short play by Tessa Duder clearly focus on teenage girls. Each of the stories has girls as central to the story…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Marny Bradley, Penguin, Spring 1993, Tessa Duder
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Feminist tissue, Kathryn Walls
Me and Marilyn Monroe Cathie Dunsford (ed), Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $32.95 Dr Cathie Dunsford, inspired by the female forms created by female sculptors, and convinced that women should be speaking out against the maltreatment of their bodies by the…
Tagged with: Cathie Dunsford, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Kathryn Walls, Spring 1993
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Finale in the Alex quartet, Tim Mapplebeck
Songs for Alex Tessa Duder, Penguin, $9.95 The Rome Olympics are a perplexing memory for Alex, now returned to Auckland, to the routines and strictures of training for uncertain goals, and returned, too, to the confinement of life in the…
Tagged with: Issue 10, Penguin, Spring 1993, Tessa Duder, Tim Mapplebeck
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Literature, Review, Young adults
The art of recording voices, David Clarke
Talking History: A Short Guide to Oral History Megan Hutching, Bridget Williams Books, $17.95 Talking History provides a valuable short reference book for those contemplating venturing into the fascinating art of oral history recording, and those who have already done…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, David Clarke, Issue 10, Megan Hutching, Spring 1993
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Remarkable riders, Anna Rogers
Roger Robinson and Anna Rogers review books that document ‘a little-discussed area of women’s endeavour’. Racing Women of New Zealand Mary Mountier, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, $34.95 As a reviewer for this book, I am what could be described as…
Tagged with: Anna Rogers, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, Issue 10, Mary Mountier, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Shaping the Women’s Book Festival for a future, Rachel Lawson
For most of us the Listener Women’s Book Festival appears without question each September. Women crowd to events all over the country to put a face to their favourite authors, ask tricky questions about their lives and characters, and splash…
A sporting chance, Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson and Anna Rogers review books that document ‘a little-discussed area of women’s endeavour’. Athletes of the Century: 100 Years of New Zealand Track and Field Peter Heidenstrom, GP Publications, $49.95 The world’s first international races for women…
Tagged with: GP Publications, Issue 10, Peter Heidenstrom, Roger Robinson, Spring 1993
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Review, Sport
An important piece of social history, Ruth Fry
Redbrick and Bluestockings: Women at Victoria 1899-1993 Beryl Hughes and Sheila Ahern, Victoria University Press, $29.95 This is not a book for dipping into in order to check whether the achievements of one’s aunt at university are properly recorded. It…
Tagged with: Beryl Hughes, Issue 10, Ruth Fry, Sheila Ahern, Spring 1993, Victoria University Press
Posted in Education, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review