Title: The gendered Kiwi /
Authors: Daley, Caroline.; Montgomerie, Deborah.
Publisher: Auckland University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Gender identity New Zealand History.; Sex role New Zealand History.; Women New Zealand Social conditions.; Men New Zealand Social conditions.; New Zealand Social life and customs.
Abstract: "This collection of essays analyses 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 It brings together previously unpublished essays on topics as diverse as 1930s fashion and feminist men in the 1970s. Established scholars such as Charlotte Macdonald reopen the debate about whether colonial New Zealand was really a man's country, while Jock Phillips asks new questions about late-twentieth-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, nineteenth-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 of analysing our past."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction / Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie -- 1. Too Many Men and Too Few Women: Gender's 'Fatal Impact' in Nineteenth-Century Colonies / Charlotte Macdonald -- 2. Families and the Gendering of European New Zealand in the Colonial Period, 1840-80 / Erik Olssen -- 3. Criminal Conversations: Infanticide, Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand / Bronwyn Dalley -- 4. A Gendered Domain: Leisure in Auckland, 1890-1940 / Caroline Daley -- 5. Bread Queues and Breadwinners: Gender in the 1930s / Tim Frank -- 6. Good Clothes are Good Business: Gender, Consumption and Appearance in the Office, 1918-39 / Danielle Sprecher -- 7. Sweethearts, Soldiers, Happy Families: Gender and the Second World War / Deborah Montgomerie -- 8. The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit: White-Collar Masculinity in Post-War New Zealand / Frazer Andrewes -- 9. Men, Women and Leisure Since the Second World War / Jock Phillips -- 10. 'When Dad Was a Woman': Gender Relations in the 1970s / Barbara Brookes.