Women's Studies Journal
Women's Studies Journal
Autumn 1996 - 12:1
Contents:
- For Women's Own Good: Gender Verification of Female Athletes
Jan Cameron - 'Too Hard a Life for a Girl': Becoming a Nurse at Auckland Hospital, 1913-1917
Deborah Dunsford - Women in the Club
Sue Upton - Rights, Facts Humans and Women: An Archaeology of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion in New Zealand
Maureen Molloy - Wives and Mothers First: The New Zealand Teachers' Marriage Bar and the Ideology of Domesticity, 1920-1940
Jo Aitken - Reflecting on the Pacific: Representations of the Pacific and Pacific Island Women in Five Dominant Cinematic Texts
Judith van Trigt
Book Reviews:
- Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives, (eds)Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan, reviewed by Bridget Waldron.
- Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts, 1970-90, (ed) Catriona Moore, reviewed by Judith Collard.
- The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference, by Rosalyn Diprose, reviewed by Barbara Nicholas.
- Gender, Culture and Power, by Bev James and Kay Saville-Smith, reviewed by Rhonda Shaw.
Cover Photograph: Illusions of Flight, Kirsten Mitchell, Elam, 1995