# New Women's Press

New Women's Press (NWP) was an independent book publisher founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 1982. New Women's Press's mandate was to publish books "by, for, and about women." Wendy Harrex ran New Women's Press for 11 years. Over that time, NWP published over 70 titles of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, as well as an annual diary, Herstory, that highlighted groups of New Zealand women. The Haeata Collective of Māori women artists was originally founded to produce a Herstory edition for NWP. NWP also published the first anthology of New Zealand women's fiction, which was edited by Cathie Dunsford.
The Broadsheet feminist magazine and NWP celebrated a joint anniversary (Broadsheet's twentieth and NWP's tenth) on 19 September 1992, with a Suffrage Day event in Auckland, attended by more than 200 women. The event was part of the Listener Women's Book Festival, and was also the launch of Been Around for Quite a While. Speakers included Pat Rosier, Sandra Coney, Wendy Harrex, Stephanie Johnson and Sheridan Keith.
In an article surveying the state of women's publishing in New Zealand, Laurel Bergmann describes New Women's Press as "an important part of the process of legitimation of women fiction writers", particularly due to the New Women's Fiction anthology series that provided opportunities to new writers to publish alongside established voices. Janet Wilson has noted that this anthology series "confirmed the development of a new market and readership" for writing by women.

## List of Publications

| Title | Author/Editors | Series | Year of Publication | ISBN |
| New Women's Calendar 1982 | | | 1981 | |
| Healthy Women: A self-help guide to good health | Sarah Calvert | | 1982 | 0 908652 00 3 |
| New Zealand Herstory 1983 | Hamilton Women's Collective | Herstory | 1982 | 0 908652 01 1 |
| Born Beneath a Rainbow: Memories of a country childhood | Judith Ellmers | | 1983 | 0 908652 02 X |
| Self Defence for Women | Sue Lytollis | | 1983 | 0 908652 03 8 |
| New Zealand Herstory 1984 | | Herstory | 1983 | |
| Nest in a Falling Tree | Joy Cowley | New Women's Classics | 1984 | 0 908652 08 9 |
| The Love Contract | Margaret Sutherland | New Women's Classics | 1984 | 0 908652 10 0 |
| Dragon Rampant | Robin Hyde | New Women's Classics | 1984 | 0 908652 07 0 |
| Deep Breathing | Lora Mountjoy | | 1984 | 0 908652 13 5 |
| Haeata Herstory 1985 | Haeata Herstory Collective | Herstory | 1984 | 0 908652 12 7 |
| Women's Studies: A New Zealand Handbook | Candis Craven, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Pat Rosier & Margot Roth | | 1985 | 0 908652 15 1 |
| Recipes My Mother Taught Me | Reinza Goldwater | | 1985 | 0 908652 14 3 |
| Herstory 1986 | Rural Women's Network | Herstory | 1985 | 0 908652 16 X |
| Save the Midwife | Joan Donley | | 1986 | 0 908652 05 4 |
| Self Defence for Women | Sue Lyttolis | Reprint | 1986 | 0 908652 03 8 |
| New Women's Fiction | Ed. Cathie Dunsford | New Women's Fiction | 1986 | 0 908652 18 6 |
| The Daughter-in-Law and Other Stories | Frances Cherry | | 1986 | 0 908652 19 4 |
| The Old-Time Maori | Makereti | New Women's Classics | 1986 | 0 908652 11 9 |
| Nor the Years Condemn | Robin Hyde | New Women's Classics | 1986 | 0 908652 09 7 |
| Peace is More than the Absence | Gil Hanly, Sonja Davies | | 1986 | 0 908652 23 5 |
| Herstory 1987 | Herstory '87 Collective | Herstory | 1986 | 0 908652 21 6 |
| Candles and Canvas: A Danish Family in New Zealand | Poula Langkilde-Christie | | 1987 | 0 908652 22 4 |
| Twenty-Eight Days in Kiribati | Claudia Pond Eyley and Robin White | | 1987 | 0 908652 24 0 |
| Feet Across America | Anne Macfarlane | | 1987 | 0 908652 25 9 |
| 2 Deaths in 1 Night | Janet Charman | | 1987 | 0 908652 27 5 |
| Poorman Oranges: Women in community houses in Auckland | Wensley Willcox | | 1987 | 0 908652 29 1 |
| Herstory 1988: Women & Books | New Women's Press | Herstory | 1987 | 0 908652 28 3 |
| New Women's Fiction 2 | Ed. Aorewa McLeod | New Women's Fiction | 1988 | 0 908652 30 5 |
| The Glass Whittler: Short Stories | Stephanie Johnson | | 1988 | 0 908652 33 X |
| Tai: Heart of a Tree | Momoe Malietoa von Reiche | | 1988 | 0 908652 36 4 |
| Guts, Tears & Glory: Champion New Zealand Sportswomen talk to Trish Stratford | Trish Stratford | | 1988 | 0 908652 31 3 |
| Herstory 1989 (on women in sport) | Lisa Hayes & Clare Simpson | Herstory | 1988 | 0 908652 34 8 |
| Healing Your Child | Frances & Louise Darragh | | 1989 | 0 908652 26 7 |
| Premenstrual Syndrome | Helen Duckworth | New Women's Handbook Series | 1989 | 0 908652 44 5 |
| No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who have problems with food | Jasbindar Singh & Pat Rosier | New Women's Handbook Series | 1989 | 0 908652 46 1 |
| Wednesday’s Children | Robin Hyde | New Women's Classics | 1989 | 0 908652 37 2 |
| New Women's Fiction 3 | Mary Paul & Marion Rae | New Women's Fiction | 1989 | 0 908652 43 7 |
| The Wintering House | Alexandria Chalmers | New Women's Fiction | 1989 | 0 908652 40 2 |
| One Plain, One Purl: Stories of a Girlhood | Carin Svensson | New Women's Fiction | 1989 | 0 908652 41 0 |
| Tahuri | Ngahuia Te Awekotuku | New Women's Fiction | 1989 | 0 908652 42 9 |
| Dancing with Strings | Frances Cherry | New Women's Fiction | 1989 | 0 908652 32 1 |
| To Be So Old | Gwen Skinner | | 1990 | 0 908652 47 X |
| The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian writing from Australia & NZ | Cathie Dunsford & Susan Hawthorne | | 1990 | 0 908652 51 8 |
| Home Away from Home | Manying Ip | | 1990 | 0 908652 45 3 |
| Victoria in Maoriland | Margaret Bray | New Women's Fiction | 1990 | 0 908652 50 X |
| Self Defence for Women | Sue Lytollis | Reprint | 1990 | 0 908652 03 8 |
| Premenstrual Syndrome | Helen Duckworth | Attic Press Edition | 1990 | 0 946211 67 1 |
| No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who have problems with food | Jasbindar Singh & Pat Rosier | Attic Press Edition | 1990 | 1 85594 007 8 |
| Women in Mid-Life | Leteia Potter | New Women's Handbook Series | 1991 | 0 908652 53 4 |
| Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian View | Julie Glamuzina & Alison Laurie | | 1991 | 0 908652 54 2 |
| Sailing Away: New Zealand Women in Sailing 1920-1990 | Jann Iorns | | 1991 | 0 908652 57 7 |
| Mana Wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politics | Ngahuia Te Awekotuku | | 1991 | 0 908652 63 1 |
| New Women's Fiction 4 | Wendy Harrex & Lynsey Ferrari | New Women's Fiction | 1991 | 0 908652 64 8 |
| The Widowhood of Jacki Bates | Frances Cherry | New Women's Fiction | 1991 | 0 908652 61 5 |
| Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket | Sheridan Keith | New Women's Fiction | 1991 | 0 908652 58 5 |
| An Unusually Clumsy Lover | Carin Svensson | New Women's Fiction | 1991 | 0 908652 60 7 |
| Animal Passions | Sheridan Keith | | 1992 | 0 908652 66 6 |
| Crimes of Neglect | Stephanie Johnson | | 1992 | 0 908652 65 8 |
| The Woman Question: Writings by the women who won the vote | Selected by Margaret Lovell-Smith | | 1992 | 0 908652 67 4 |
| Broadsheet: Twenty Years of Broadsheet Magazine | Ed. Pat Rosier | | 1992 | 0 908652 68 2 |
| Invisible Families: A resource for Family and friends of lesbian or gay daughters and sons | Terry Stewart | | 1993 | 0 908652 69 0 |
| Healing Your Child | Frances & Louise Darragh | reprint | 1994 | 0 908652 26 7 |