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Women mean business : colonial businesswomen in New Zealand

Bishop, Catherine, author

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\"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; Mهaori and Pهakehهa; 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.

• Publisher: Otago University Press, Te Whare Tهa o Te Wهananga o هOtهakou
• Subject: Businesswomen New Zealand History 19th century. / Women-owned business enterprises New Zealand History 19th century. / Businesswomen. / Women-owned business enterprises. / New Zealand.
• ISBN: 9781988531762, 1988531764

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD6059.N45 B57 2019	1	BOOK	BUSINESS