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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Posted in Education, Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review

Beach, bush and brews, Gavin McLean

A Guide to the New Zealand Seashore Dave Gunson, VikingPacific, $19.95 If you can’t be bothered carrying all your seabird, rock pool fish and native plants books down to the beach with you, this book will be a fair substitute.…
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Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review

Superwoman/Wonderwoman, Marivee McMath

Superwoman: Where are You? Social Policy and Women’s Experience C Briar, R Munford and M Nash (eds), Dunmore Press, $39.95 Superwoman: Where are You? is a catchy title. Since Superwoman is the female counterpart of Superman, created both after and…
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Posted in Gender, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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