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You are warmly invited to the next Aotearoa Gender History Network seminar.

Wednesday Rāapa 30 April, 12 pm – 1 pm, via zoom

Register here

Bettina Bradbury, The challenge of balancing four settler women’s life histories and court contests with analysis of broader legal changes in four nineteenth-century settler colonies.

Barbara Brookes, The challenge of converting one thing into another: from biography to a theatre history

Bettina Bradbury is a historian of women, gender and families, best known for her prize-winning work in feminist family, and social legal history. Her major publications include Caroline’s Dilemma. A colonial inheritance saga (New South, 2019; UBC Press, 2020) and Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal, (UBC Press, 2011). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor emerita, department of History and the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. On retiring she returned to her home town, Wellington, where she spends more time gardening than writing.

Barbara Brookes’ work has been on the intersections between the history of women and the history of medicine, beginning with her first book Abortion in England, 1900-1967 (Croom Helm, 1988). She has co-edited two volumes of women’s history with Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant and a number of other edited volumes, including Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion (Otago University Press, 2019)with Jane McCabe and Angela Wanhalla, In 2017, Barbara won New Zealand’s Ockham Award for Best Illustrated Non-Fiction for her A History of New Zealand Women (Bridget Williams Books 2016). In 2018 she received the Royal Society Humanities-Aronui Medal for putting women at the centre of a substantial corpus of historical work.

This is a regular, online seminar. Each session (held via zoom) features 2 x 10–12-minute research presentations on current research in Gender History with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand, followed by discussion.

Please get in touch if you would like to present your research to the network.

Convenors: Charlotte Greenhalgh (charlotte.greenhalgh@waikato.ac.nz) and Charlotte Macdonald (charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz)