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A history of New Zealand women

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  • Description

    "A comprehensive history of New Zealand seen through a female lens. Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a small nation, women created the infrastructure necessary for colonial society to succeed. Concepts of home, marriage and family brought by settler women, and integral to the developing state, transformed the lives of Maori women.

    The small scale of New Zealand society facilitated rapid change so that, by the twenty-first century, women are no longer defined by family contexts. Barbara Brookes traces the factors that drove that change"--Publisher information.

  • Place
    Wellington, New Zealand
  • Other Id

    HQ1865.5 BRO (Library of Congress Call Number)

    87006 (Cat ID)

    86866 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    A history of New Zealand women
  • Primary Maker

    Barbara Brookes (Author)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Bridget Williams Books
  • Place
    Wellington, New Zealand
  • Date
    2016?
  • Physical Description

    554 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780908321452
    978090831469
    9780908321476
    9780908321483
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Women--New Zealand--History--19th century

    Women--New Zealand--History--20th century

    Women--New Zealand--Social conditions

  • Content
    1. Origins, traditions and 'civilisation', before 1814
    2. A civilising mission, 1814-1856 3. Settling pakeha families unsettling whanau, 1850s-1860s
    4. War, gold and dispossession, 1860s-1880s
    5. The quest for citizenship, 1885-1890s
    6. New expectations for a new century, 1900-1919
    7. Motherhood, mortality and a voice for women in the interwar years, 1919-1940
    8. The 'modern woman' of the interwar years, 1919-1940
    9. On the home front, 1939-1951
    10. Suburbia: expansiveness and confinement, 1950s-1960s
    11. Decade of discovery, 1967-1977
    12. Into the corridors of power, 1977-1986
    13. Reckoning with women, 1984-1990s
    14. Shaping the new millennium, 2000-2015.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-543) and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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