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1 online resource (405 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand's nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and their families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases compensating for a spouse's incompetence, intemperance, absence - or all three. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers and laundresses, colourful publicans, brothelkeepers and travelling performers, along with the odd taxidermist, bootmaker and butcher - and Australasia's first woman chemist. Then, as now, there was no 'typical' businesswoman. They were middle and working class; young and old; Māori and Pākehā; single, married, widowed and sometimes bigamists. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few months or a lifetime. In this fascinating and entertaining book, award-winning historian Dr Catherine Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, collectively, contributed so much to the making of urban life in New Zealand"--Www.otago.ac.nz |
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Don't Assume It's a Man: Finding colonial businesswomen -- 2: Women's Place and Men's Responsibility -- 3: 'This Outlandish Place at the End of the Earth' -- 4: One Ring to Bind Them All: Marriage and the law -- 5: 'Good Morning, Miss': The business of education -- 6: A Stitch in Time: Dresses and drapery -- 7: 'Personal Offices for Man': Beds, booze and bodies -- 8: 'Personal Offices for Woman': A female economy -- 9: The Corner Shop: For better or for worse |
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10: Butchers and Bakers and Cordial Makers -- 11: Pushing Boundaries: Exploiting 'accomplishments' -- 12: Globetrotting -- 13: Forgetting and Remembering -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Businesswomen -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century.
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Businesswomen. |
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New Zealand. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Women-owned business enterprises -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century.
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Women-owned business enterprises. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bishop, Catherine. Women Mean Business. Chicago : Otago University Press, ©2020 9781988531762 |
| ISBN |
1988592739 |
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9781988592732 (electronic book) |
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9781988592718 (electronic book) |
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1988592712 (electronic book) |
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