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  • Past Caring?

    Women, work and emotion

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe, Angela Wanhalla ...
    Understanding the history of care requires attention to personal narratives, such as a Maori grandmother's story, a Rarotongan leader's concept of duty to her people, or the sense of service that drove a long-term social worker. The case studies examined focus on the everyday nature of care operating across domestic, institutional and political spaces, and build upon areas of strength in women's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfortunate Folk

    Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, Jane Thomson ...
    From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of New Zealand Women

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Knowledge Making

    Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, James Dunk ...
    Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the public narratives created by institutions and governments.Paperwork and bureaucratic systems have determined what we know about the past. It seems ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • At Home in New Zealand

    History, Houses, People

    Edited by Barbara Brookes ...
    Homes and housing are an essential part of everyday life, but we rarely stop to think about what they mean to us. In this vigorous exploration of the idea of 'home' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of experts examine the house as a place of emotional intimacy, a physical structure and an institution. Combining detailed historical research and social analysis, this fascinating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Women's Suffrage Petition, 1893

    In May 2017 the exhibition He Tohu opened at the National Library in Wellington. This celebrates three founding documents in New Zealand’s history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women’s Suffrage Petition (1893). The originals of these documents are on display at the National Library, in a wonderful exhibition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bodily Subjects

    Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000

    by Tracy Penny Light, Barbara Brookes, Wendy Mitchinson ...
    Series Book 42 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s*, Bodily Subjects* explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Abortion in England 1900-1967

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications for women’s maternal role.The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

    Figuring the Social

    Edited by Alison Li, Shelley McKellar, Elsbeth A. Heaman ...
    A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler, and Harvey Cushing. The essays in this volume, each written by former doctoral students of Bliss, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law: Volume 1, The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope

    Edited by Amel Alghrani, Rebecca Bennett, Suzanne Ost ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Who should define what constitutes ethical and lawful medical practice? Judges? Doctors? Scientists? Or someone else entirely? This volume analyses how effectively criminal law operates as a forum for resolving ethical conflict in the delivery of health care. It addresses key questions such as: how does criminal law regulate controversial bioethical areas? What effect, positive or negative, does ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • River Dreams

    The people and landscape of the Cooks River

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus