New Zealand Women of the Thirties

Much has been written about New Zealand in the 1930's, during the years of the Depression, yet surprisingly little of this information has touched on the role of women during that period.

Eve Ebbett has talked with many women - rich and poor, Maori and Pakeha - who remember the time clearly. The book looks at the fashion and the fun, the hardships and the humiliations. It details the way education, careers and entertainment affected the lives of women - and the way they sought, and fought for, the right to birth control and pain-free birth.

The photographs - and there are more than a hundred of them - have been carefully chosen to capture the atmosphere of the time and the way women of all classes lived.

Hardback - 165 pages

Published 1981

Very good condition