Communities of women
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page.
Contributors: Brookes, Barbara L. 1955-; Page, Dorothy.
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Women -- History.; Women -- Social conditions.; Community life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Community, life cycle, diaspora : a daughter's view / Anna Davin; title: The communities of a thirteenth-century holy woman, Ida of Nivelles / Jennifer Carpenter; title: Herrad of Hohenbourg's Hortus deliciarum and the creation of images for medieval nuns / Judith Collard; title: Native American women's use of Connecticut's colonial courts / Katharine Hermes & Alexandra Maravel; title: Women's peculiar mission : ladies' benevolence in the New Zealand setting / Margaret Tennant; title: Sustaining the vision from Adelaide to Temuka : a Josephite community is founded in New Zealand in 1883 / Ann Gilroy; title: Anything but a roll in the hay : romance in rural communities in Federation Australia / Kate Hunter; title: Dissecting a community : women medical students at the University of Otago, 1891-1924 / Dorothy Page; title: Women working for women at work : women factory inspectors in Britain, 1893-1921 / Barbara Harrison; title: Gender and the politics of keeping left : Wellington labour women and their community, 1912-1949 / Melanie Nolan; title: Political communities of women / Marilyn Lake.