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Tokoroa women: ladies, girls and dark horses

dc.contributor.authorBassett, Beverley Raewyn
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-27T02:01:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-31T00:08:30Z
dc.date.available2011-09-27T02:01:38Z
dc.date.available2022-10-31T00:08:30Z
dc.date.copyright1990
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractTokoroa is a central North Island pulp and paper mill town, built in the post-war boom period of the early 1950s. This study of the women of Tokoroa analyses statistical, textual and photographic content from a variety of sources to reveal both visible and invisible realities. New Zealand Population Census statistics for Tokoroa women, and articles and photographs in the local newspaper, the South Waikato News, 1987, construct women only in relation to men, as occasional workers, beautiful objects, whose whole identity lies in the caring and servicing of others. It is only in sports, and then only in women's division of sports, that women are identified as strong, skilful, aggressive and competitive. Tokoroa Women's Refuge statistics 1985 - 1987, and statistics for Tokoroa from the New Zealand National Police Headquarters, 1987, show that the Census statistics and the newspaper are able to show only one part of women's lives. A more complete understanding of the lives of Tokoroa women requires not only the analysis of normative data such as the South Waikato News and the New Zealand Population Census, but also the analysis of the non-normative data, in this case statistics from the New Zealand Police National Headquarters and from the Tokoroa Women's Refuge.. Extending the analysis beyond the concepts of production and reproduction in which work is the primary analysing category reveals a process of sexuality which constructs women into the gender female of our society.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/26538
dc.languageen_NZ
dc.language.isoen_NZ
dc.publisherTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAll rights, except those explicitly waived, are held by the Authoren_NZ
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dc.subjectNew Zealand womenen_NZ
dc.subjectTokoroaen_NZ
dc.subjectSociologyen_NZ
dc.titleTokoroa women: ladies, girls and dark horsesen_NZ
dc.typeTexten_NZ
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorTe Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellingtonen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_NZ
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuwAwarded Research Masters Thesisen_NZ

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