Women in History 2 - Essays on Women in New Zealand

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A new history is being written in New Zealand: the history of women. WOMEN IN HISTORY 2 expands the boundaries further, reaching into the twentieth century, and bringing in topics such as domestic work, rural women, delinquincy and wartime work.

Here Judith Binney writes about Maori women - about the ways in which 'kinship loyalties order the telling of all Maori history'. Margaret Tennant describes the lives of 'magdalenes and moral imbeciles' (as they were called), the women confined to institutions in the nineteenth century. Jane Malthus writes about dressmaking, Dorothy Page about the 'first lady graduates', Anne Else about the 'Motherhood of Man' movement, and Sally Parker about farm women in the 1950's. Women in History 2 follows on from the successful first volume Women in History (1986), with a wider range of topics, and a broader timespan.