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A history of New Zealand women / Barbara Brookes.

By: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780908321452
  • 0908321457
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.40993 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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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