Sites of Gender : Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin 1890-1939 [OP]

Author(s): Barbara Brookes

NZ Social & Cultural History | Secondhand

Sites of Gender makes a major contribution to the field of social history, both in New Zealand and internationally, by presenting through the microcosm of the southern suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand, a unique picture of the changing social patterns of a entire nation. This important study is the fruit of five years' work into the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin from 1890 to the Second World War. It is significant in several ways: in its reliance on the huge database developed from the 1970s by the Caversham Project; in its interdisciplinary character, with contributions from the fields of history, geography, urban planning, gender studies and clothing technology; and its use of both qualitative and quantitative analysis including some vivid and lively insights from oral history.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781869403058
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : 0.907
  • : December 2003
  • : 224mm X 158mm X 25mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Barbara Brookes
  • : Paperback
  • : 993.9203
  • : 300
  • : illustrations