A history of New Zealand women / Barbara Brookes.
Publisher: Wellington, New Zealand Bridget Williams Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 554 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780908321452
- 0908321457
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Women
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- New Zealand -- Social conditions
- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
- New Zealand
- New Zealand -- History
- 305.40993 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 305.40993 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 67809 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. Origins, traditions and 'civilisation': before 1814 -- 2. A civilising mission: 1814-1866 -- 3. Settling Pākehā families, unsettling whānau: 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, morality 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: from dependence to independence: 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.
"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 Māori 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.
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