otago university press 2019 CATALOGUE NEW BOOKS I 1 CONTENTS OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou New books 3–20 Recent books 21–31 PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Books in print: by title 32–38 Level 1 / 398 Cumberland Street Books in print: by author 39–41 Dunedin, New Zealand How to buy OUP books 42 Phone: 64 3 479 8807 Email: [email protected] Web: www.otago.ac.nz/press www.facebook.com/OtagoUniversityPress http://twitter.com/OtagoUniPress Co-Publishers: Rachel Scott and Vanessa Manhire Production Manager: Fiona Moffat Editor: Imogen Coxhead Publicity and Marketing Co-ordinator: Victor Billot Accounts Administrator: Arvin Lazaro Prices are recommended retail prices and may be subject to change. Cover: Radclyffe Hall with her dachshunds, from Queer Objects (see pp. 4–5). MSS_HallR_and_ TroubridgeUVL_25/5/004, University of Texas, Austin 2 I NEW BOOKS WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS CATHERINE BISHOP Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth- Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand in New businesswomen Colonial Business Mean Women From Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth- century towns were full of entrepreneurial women.century Contrary towns were full of entrepreneurial to what women. Contrary we to mightwhat we might expect, expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. colonial women were not only wives and mothers Aor surprising domestic number ran their own businesses,servants. supporting themselves A surprising and their families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases number ran their own businesses, supporting themselvescompensating for a spouse’sand incompetence, their intemperance, families, absence – or allsometimes three. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers and laundresses, colourful in productive partnership with husbands, but in otherpublicans, brothelkeepers cases and compensating travelling performers, along with the oddfor a spouse’s taxidermist, bootmaker and butcher – and Australasia’s first woman chemist. incompetence, intemperance, absence – or all three.Then, as now, there was no ‘typical’ businesswoman. They were middle and working class; young and old; Māori and Pākehā; single, married, widowed and The pages of this book overflow with the storiessometimes of bigamists. hard-working Their businesses could be wild successes milliners or dismal failures, and Women lasting just a few months or a lifetime. dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers andIn this laundresses, fascinating and entertaining book, colourful award-winning historian publicans,Dr Catherine Mean Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, brothel keepers and travelling performers, along withcollectively, thecontributed odd so much totaxidermist, the making of urban life in New Zealand.bootmaker Business Dr CATHERINE BISHOP (pictured below, left) grew up in Whanganui. She completed her first degree at Victoria University in Wellington, before working as a maths teacher, and butcher – and Australasia’s first woman chemist.bookseller and mother in the UK and Australia. She finished her PhD at the Australian Colonial National University in 2012 and now lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Her first book, Then, as now, there was no ‘typical’ businesswoman.Minding Her Own Business:They Colonial businesswomen were in Sydney middle (NewSouth, 2015), and won working businesswomen the prestigious Ashurst Business Literature Prize in 2016. She currently holds a research fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council at Macquarie University, where she BISHOP CATHERINE class; young and old; Māori and Pākehā; single, married,is writing a history of womenwidowed in business in twentieth-century and Australia. sometimes The research for in New Zealand Women Mean Business was assisted by a New Zealand History Trust Award. bigamists. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few CATHERINE BISHOP months or a lifetime. Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize 2016 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. ISBN 978-1-98-853176-2 OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS CATHERINE BISHOP grew up in Whanganui. SheWWW.OTAGO.AC.NZ/PRESS completed her first degree9 781988 531762at Victoria University in Wellington, before working as a maths teacher, bookseller and mother in the UK and Australia. She finished her PhD at the Australian National Paperback, illustrations University in 2012 and now lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Her first book, 240 x 170mm, 404pp Minding Her Own Business: Colonial businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth, 2015), ISBN 978-1-98-853176-2, $45 won the prestigious Ashurst Business Literature Prize in 2016. She currently holds September 2019 a research fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council at Macquarie University, where she is writing a history of women in business in twentieth-century Published with the assistance of Australia. The research for Women Mean Business was assisted by a New Zealand Creative New Zealand History Trust Award. NEW BOOKS I 3 4 I NEW BOOKS QUEER OBJECTS CHRIS BRICKELL AND JUDITH COLLARD EDITORS Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects: the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, various reminders of state power, as well as the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The 63 chapters in Queer Objects consider this question in relation to lesbian, gay and trans gender communities across time, cultures and space. In this unique international collaboration, well- known and newer writers traverse world history to write about items ranging from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and Roman artefacts to political placards, snapshots, sex toys and the smartphone. The queer angel of history has brought us this remarkable book of objects that have aroused memories – involuntary and voluntary, painful and uplifting, individual and communal. A deeply moving exploration of history, memory, and queerness. — JEFFREY ESCOFFIER, author of American Homo: Community and perversity CHRIS BRICKELL is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Otago. His books include Mates and Lovers: A history of gay New Zealand (2008), Manly Affections: Paperback with flaps, full colour The photographs of Robert Gant, 1885–1915 (2012) and Teenagers: The rise of youth 250 x 210mm, 420pp culture (2017). ISBN 978-1-98-853166-3, $50 October 2019 JUDITH COLLARD is a senior lecturer in the History Programme at the University Published with the assistance of of Otago. She lectures in gender issues in art history as well as in medieval and Creative New Zealand Renaissance art, and art from the 1960s to the 1980s. NEW BOOKS I 5 WENDY PARKINS EVERY MORNING, SO FAR, I’M ALIVE A memoir Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about what it’s like to live in a world where shaking a stranger’s hand, catching a taxi or touching a door handle are fraught with fear and dread. This memoir charts the author’s breakdown after migrating from New Zealand to England: what begins as homesickness and career burn-out develops into depression, contamination phobia and OCD. Increasingly alienated from all the things that previously gave her life meaning and purpose – family, work, nature, literature – the author is forced to confront a question once posed by the young Virginia Woolf: ‘How is one to live in such a world?’ In this fiercely honest memoir Wendy Parkins, a former English professor, explores what it means to belong and feel at home, and how we are shaped by our first environments, both familial and physical. Describing the gradual process of recovery – as well as its reversals – it shows that returning to health can be about rediscovering how we came to be who we are, without becoming trapped by our narratives of origin. Like coming home, recovery is never quite what we expect it to be, however much we long for it. Beautifully written, intensely moving and threaded with self-deprecating humour, Every morning, so far, I’m alive is about claiming the right to tell our own story and learning to embrace the risks that the messy unpredictability of life always entails. WENDY PARKINS, formerly a professor of Victorian Literature, has taught at universities in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. She has written three scholarly Paperback, 230 x 150mm, 216pp monographs and dozens of academic articles and book chapters. Her previous books ISBN 978-1-98-853161-8, $35 include Slow Living (co-authored with Geoffrey Craig) and Jane Morris: The burden of In print history. Every morning, so far, I’m alive is her first published creative work. Wendy lives Published with the assistance of in Matakana, New Zealand. Creative New Zealand 6 I NEW BOOKS WEST ISLAND STEPHANIE JOHNSON Five twentieth-century New Zealanders in Australia Five notable twentieth-century New Zealanders who made their lives in Australia are the subject of this fascinating biographical investigation by award-winning author Stephanie Johnson. Roland Wakelin, Jean Devanny, Douglas Stewart, Eric Baume and Dulcie Deamer had little in common in personality, proclivities or politics. Yet they all experienced fame and/ or notoriety in the ‘West Island’ while being largely forgotten in their country of origin. They also occasionally crossed paths in the course of eventful lives. The works of painter Roland Wakelin place him as a founder of Australia’s Modern Movement. The forthright feminism and creative integrity of communist and novelist Jean Devanny led to bitter battles with the men who tried to control her. Douglas Stewart was one of the most famous ‘Australian’ writers of his period and a long-term gatekeeper for Australian letters.