Women Now: The Legacy of Female Suffrage
Twelve dynamic essays by leading New Zealand thinkers mark 125 years since New Zealand won the right to vote
Bronwyn Labrum
Dr Bronwyn Labrum is the Director of the Whanganui Regional Museum and was the Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at Te Papa Tongarewa.
She is the author of Women’s History: Researching and Writing Women’s History in New Zealand (BWB, 1993); and co-editor of Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History (AUP, 2000); and Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2007) and the best-selling Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s (Te Papa Press), which was short-listed for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
She has also published articles and chapters both nationally and internationally on the history of women; asylums and mental health; the history of welfare services; and material culture and museums, contributing to significant edited collections and reference works in these areas.
Books
Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s
Real Modern tells a vibrant and varied story of real life in this compelling era through images and, above all, objects.
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