A History Of New Zealand Women

Author : Barbara Brookes
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321465
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of New Zealand Women written by Barbara Brookes and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct from (though often unwillingly influenced by) those of history’s ‘great men’? In her ground-breaking History of New Zealand Women, Barbara Brookes provides just such a history. This is more than an account of women in New Zealand, from those who arrived on the first waka to the Grammy and Man Booker Prize-winning young women of the current decade. It is 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. In her long-awaited book, Barbara Brookes traces the factors that drove that change. Her lively narrative draws on a wide variety of sources to map the importance in women’s lives not just of legal and economic changes, but of smaller joys, such as the arrival of a piano from England, or the freedom of riding a bicycle.

Author : New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Together written by New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "132 short histories of organisations, grouped in thirteen sections"--Introduction.

Author : Barbara Lesley Brookes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in History 2 written by Barbara Lesley Brookes and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlotte Macdonald
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of New Zealand Women written by Charlotte Macdonald and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical essays on some three hundred prominent women of New Zealand.

Author : Michael King
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623754
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin History of New Zealand written by Michael King and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.

Author : Sandra Coney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standing in the Sunshine written by Sandra Coney and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing in the sunshine is an illustrated social history of New Zealand women since they won the vote in 1893. New Zealand had the distinction of being the first country in the world where women's struggle for the vote resulted in success. This book explores all aspects of women's lives from 1893 to 1993, turning up new and unexpected moments in New Zealand women's history.

Author : Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775582434
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Suffrage in New Zealand written by Patricia Grimshaw and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the New Zealand suffrage movement, Women's Suffrage in New Zealand remains the only study of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. It tells the fascinating story of the courage and the determination of the early New Zealand feminists led by the remarkable Kate Sheppard, whose ideas and attitudes still resonate today.

Author : Deborah Montgomerie
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869402440
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's War written by Deborah Montgomerie and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explains the ambiguities of wartime changes in the private and public lives of New Zealand women. It considers women as mothers, wives and lovers, as well as workers, using many examples from real lives. Deborah Montgomerie's main argument is that despite the changes, the war was essentially a conservative period, pointing out that understanding the continuities in gender relations is as important as cataloguing female 'firsts'. Her book stylishly challenges accepted wisdom and offers a clear, fresh view of a period often viewed through the blurry lens of nostalgia and anecdote."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Frances Steel
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0947518711
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Zealand and the Sea written by Frances Steel and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways: along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera, and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders have continually altered their marine environments, the ocean, too, has influenced their lives. A multi-disciplinary work encompassing history, marine science, archaeology and visual culture, New Zealand and the Sea explores New Zealand’s varied relationship with the sea, challenging the conventional view that history unfolds on land. Leading and emerging scholars highlight the dynamic, ocean-centred history of these islands and their inhabitants, offering fascinating new perspectives on New Zealand’s pasts. ‘The ocean has profoundly shaped culture across this narrow archipelago . . . The meeting of land and sea is central in historical accounts of Polynesian discovery and colonisation; European exploratory voyaging; sealing, whaling and the littoral communities that supported these plural occupations; and the mass migrant passage from Britain.’ – Frances Steel

Author : Megan Hutching
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730446093
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading the Way written by Megan Hutching and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the struggle for women's suffrage in New Zealand, including short biographies of the main people involved. In 1893, wearing white camellias meant you supported women's right to vote - a red camellia in your lapel signalled the opposite. In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give ?women the vote, a milestone of which we are justly proud, but it wasn't ?easily achieved. the struggle was protracted and often bitter. the ?resolve and strength of the women involved were sorely tested, as their ?determination to have equality and the right to vote brought out the ?worst in their opponents. In LEADING tHE WAY, respected historian Megan Hutching tells the story ?of this momentous event, including profiles of some of the women who ?brought about such a massive social upheaval by changing the minds and hearts of the politicians. Among them are names you will recognise, while others will be less well known. they are some of the women who helped ?our great-grandmothers put aside their aprons and become enfranchised ?citizens of this country. their stories are an important part of our history ?as a socially progressive country, and their courage, loyalty and fierce ?belief in democracy still resonate today. Megan Hutching's most recent book was OVER tHE WIDE AND tRACKLESS SEA, ?a history of women pioneers in New Zealand. Author of six books of ?oral histories of the Second World War, as part of the 'New Zealanders Remember' series, she has an abiding interest in writing about the extraordinary lives of New Zealand women.