Women mean business : colonial businesswomen in New Zealand /
"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 t...
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Dunedin, New Zealand :
Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Don't assume it's a man: finding colonial businesswomen
- Women's place and men's responsibility
- 'This outlandish place at the end of the earth'
- One ring to bind them all: marriage and the law
- 'Good morning, Miss': the business of education
- A stitch in time: dresses and drapery
- 'Personal offices for man': beds, booze, and bodies
- 'Personal offices for women': a female economy
- The corner shop: for better or worse
- Butchers and bakers and cordial makers
- Pushing boundaries: exploiting 'accomplishments'
- Globetrotting
- Forgetting and remembering.