On the Farm: New Zealand's Invisible Women
Author(s): Hall David
On the Farm: New Zealand's Invisible Women tells the fascinating stories of Kiwi farm women predominantly in their own words, drawing from the vast archive of letters written to New Zealand farming magazines throughout the 20th century. It reveals the daily routines, the various roles women held on farms: from mother to teacher, baker to accountant, cleaner to farm worker, and how their extraordinarily busy work loads were carried out largely unacknowledged and unseen. It shows how women struggled for greater recognition for their contributions to farming, tracing a time from when it was impossible for a woman to get a bank loan to own or operate a farm, to a period when women were often considered equal partners in the running of a farm and regularly became individual farm owners.
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A valuable contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand's record of herstory. - Danna Glendining (past Chair of National Advisory Council for the Employment of Women); Dr Hall is a rural historian of considerable skill. - Professor Jim McAloon
David Hall completed a career in space science and retired from his post as Director of Science at the British National Space Centre before he studied Humanities and History at the Open University, UK, graduating in 2010. He completed a PhD on British trade relations at the Victoria University of Wellington in 2016, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. At Victoria University he tutored courses on North American history and Modern European history.
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- : David Bateman Limited
- : David Bateman Ltd
- : 01 July 0000
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- : Hall David