Too many gifts to choose from? We now sell online gift vouchers. Find out more here

Search
Search
Home | New Zealand History | A History of New Zealand Women | By Barbara Brookes

A History of New Zealand Women | By Barbara Brookes

$70.00
$70.00
Sold Out

 

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.

ISBN: 9780908321452
Size: 25 x 20cm
Page: 560
Format: Softback


    2024 December gifting cut-off

    NZ courier deliveries
    As the busy season approaches, we need to be mindful that couriers are in high demand. As advised by our courier partners if orders processed by the dates below, your items should be delivered before 25th December.

    North Island
    Residential Residential addresses - Wednesday 18th December
    Rural addresses - Tuesday 17th December

    South Island
    Residential Residential addresses - Tuesday 17th December
    Rural addresses - Monday 16th December

    *Any international orders placed from 2nd Decmber are not guranteed to arrive before the year end.

    STORE PICK UP

    Store Pick Up allows you to order online and pick up your order in-store, without incurring any delivery fees.
    Your order will be ready the next business day, and our pick up hours are 10AM – 5PM Monday to Friday.
    For full details read our Store Pick Up terms.


    DELIVERY WITHIN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND


    Shipping costs will be calculated and added at checkout.

    Online orders are dispatched Monday to Friday.

    Allow 3 - 5 business days for delivery within New Zealand (please allow an extra business day for South Island and Rural addresses).

    Once your order has been collected by our courier, you’ll be notified via email and provided a tracking number. All orders/parcels are labelled as a “signature required” courier service for security purposes.

    *Our standard shipping excludes PO Box, Waiheke island, Great Barrier island, Chatham island and Stewart island.


    INTERNATIONAL DELIVERIES

    Shipping costs will be calculated and added at checkout.

    Online orders are dispatched Monday to Friday.

    Allow 5 - 10 business days for international deliveries.

    Once your order has been collected by our courier, you’ll be notified via email and provided a tracking number. All orders/parcels are labelled as a “signature required” courier service for security purposes.

    For full delivery details read our shipping terms.