Contents

Contents : introduction -- WOMANHOOD SUFFRAGE [cusp of change, feminist foremothers, Mary Leavitt visits NZ, suffragists, ladies’ gallery, formation of the suffrage campaign, Sir John Hall and his allies, Mr Henry Fish and other opponents, monster petitions, gathering signatures, long struggle for female franchise, women’s first polling day, Lady Anna Stout in Britain] -- THE OTHER HALF IN POLITICS [parliamentary rights for women, women jurors, Rosetta Baume and Ellen Melville, Elizabeth Reid McCombs, Iriaka Ratana, 'Lady Mayor’ of Onehunga, women in local politics, Edith How-Martyn visits New Zealand, Dame Te Atairangikaahu] -- THE BOSOM OF THE FAMILY [Binns Family, maori childbirth, pain relief for normal labour, Edwin Family, Plunket Society, every maori mother’s ‘sacred duty’, carnival of the king baby, famous Johnson quads, maori family, birth control, eugenics, abortion, maori women and abortion, orphans and fatherless children, orphanages, infanticide, single mother and her child, speaking out for single mothers, back-to-the-house rebellion, Kuia, maori women move to the cities, victorian ritual of mourning] -- SICKNESS AND HEALTH [1918 influenza epidemic, maori district nurses, Hikapuki, the woman tohunga, suppression of quackery, victorian menstrual myths, maori attitudes to menstruation, Cora Wilding and the sunlight league, women’s food value league, Emere Makere Waiwaha Kaa Mountain, nurses and the white plague, Lady Doctors, Dr Eliza Frikart] -- KNOWING NO BOUNDS [controversial cyclist’s tour, Esther James Walks from North Cape to Bluff, reform dress shocks the community, stylish waist-squeezer, new women take up the bicycle, self-defence pioneer, Sue Lytollis] -- AGITATE, EDUCATE & ORGANISE [campaign against contagious diseases, women organising hui, fight for women police, age of consent, fight to abolish the barmaid, pub liberations, Hanny van Roekel’s citizenship campaign, Miriam Soljak’s Fight, maori women’s welfare league, feminist press, maori newspapers, girl citizen movement, saving the nelson railway, battle for abortion rights, women’s liberation movement, women of nga tamatoa] -- KICKING UP THEIR HEELS [entertainments, the harem skirt arrives, women’s hair, heyday of hats, clothes and fashion, sexual segregation on the beaches, first beauty contests, Dale Austen goes to Hollywood, Billie Andreassen wins film quest, Miss New Zealand under fire, forgotten visitors, dancing career of Da Katipa, tall women’s club, lesbians, Te Oranga Girls’ home inquiry, abuse at Bollard girls’ home, Mazengarb inquiry of 1954] -- AFFAIRS OF THE HEART [sex education, friendship and courtship, weddings, grandest wedding ever, Airini Tonor and G P Donnelly, maori marriage, matrimonial property, maori women’s land rights, breach of promise, better that I should die, suicide mania] -- EDUCATING GIRLS [maori native schools, keepers of the language, Queen Victoria School, girls’ secondary schooling, domestic science in schools, evils of cram, early university graduates, discrimination against women teachers] -- WORKING THEIR FINGERS TO THE BONE [housework, home appliances and the housewife, tourist guides, Guide Maggie Papakura, women who made their own living, 1890 sweating commission, formation of tailoresses’ union, Auckland tailoresses strike, Harriet Russell Morison, Demise of domestic service, maori women who shun domestic service, the housemaid’s day, uppity servants, women conquer the typewriter, bastion of banking, unemployed women in the depression, equal pay, Ramai Hayward, women in traditional male jobs] -- PLAYING THE GAME [early women climbers, physical education in schools, netball arrives, Kathleen Nunneley, women in sport, early years of women’s hockey, marching girls, women swimmers in the 1920s, Katerina Nehua, women athletes, health and beauty movement, maori sportswomen] -- WOMAN MADE [tattooing of maori women, kuia, maori women composers, novels of the modern woman, three pioneering studio potters, cook island quilts, maori women artmakers, Olivia Spencer Bower, maori women’s fibre art, Rangimarie Hetet, early women photographers] -- WOMEN ON THE LAND [Kotahitanga, Te Hui Wahine, Bernice Johnson of Raglan, maori women on the land, Amy Hodgson (Botanist), land girls, guardians of land and sea, Turangawaewae, Te Puea Herangi, Bessie Jerome Spencer, women’s division federated farmers] -- WAR AND PEACE [Voyage of the Marquette, nurse’s wartime letters, Ettie Rout, affair of Dr Clara Lee, campaign against compulsory military training, Ethel Burnett and the soldiers’ club, raising money for the troops, the home front, nurses in the Spanish Civil War, teachers in South African concentration camps, wartime romances, women in the armed forces, women in the peace movement, wartime protestors] -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.