The Gendered Kiwi: paperback - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869402197 ISBN 13: 9781869402198

Publisher: Auckland University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Blokes, sheilas, good keen men, ladies with plates, Silver Ferns, All Blacks, marching girls and Boy Scouts: New Zealand society teems with images of women and men. This collection of essays analyzes the ways Pakeha masculinity and femininity - gender relations - have changed over time. It brings together previously unpublished essays on topics as diverse as 1930s fashion and feminist men in the 1970s. Scholars such as Charlotte Macdonald re-opens the debate about whether colonial New Zealand was really a man's country, while Jock Philips asks new questions about late-20th century leisure. Other writers canvass the stresses of depression-era masculinity, men's and women's different use of public space, office politics and power dressing. Gender relations and the family are a theme in several essays, including those about the colonial family, 19th-century criminal trials and World War II. ""The Gendered Kiwi"" builds on existing work in men's history and women's history and points to new ways to analyze New Zealand's past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1869402197
• ISBN 13: 9781869402198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Caroline Daley, Deborah Montgomerie