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Faithful living : Muslim women in New Zealand and the articulation of Islam
This research explores the narratives articulated by a cross-section of Muslim women in New Zealand. The women interviewed often felt defined and overlooked by dominant discourses that tend to stereotype and essentialise ...
From Wonder Woman to Aeon Flux : women heroes, feminism and femininity in post-war New Zealand
When a woman gains a foothold as a hero, as a warrior or tough woman in popular culture, the gender order is threatened. For the warrior woman's identity to be legitimated she must perform a coherent subjectivity that ...
The meaning of home as it becomes a place for care : the emergence of a new life stage for frail older people? : a study in the dynamics of home care for older people
This work is a study of the day to day experiences of older people in receipt of in-home care, the experiences of their family carers, and of their careworkers, resulting in a hypothesis about the structure of the lifecycle ...
From rags to rituals : an ethnography of menstruation among New Zealand pakeha women
This thesis examines menstruation among New Zealand Pakeha women from. an anthropological perspective. It takes its theoretical direction from feminist discourse that seeks to give visibility to women's issues and acknowledges ...
Children's insights into family discipline
This qualitative research project explored the views of 80 children, aged between 5 and 14 years from 5 locations in New Zealand about the parental use of family discipline, and examined whether age and gender influenced ...
Pavlova and pineapple pie : mixed parentage and Samoan-Pakeha identities in New Zealand
This thesis seeks to not only identify and describe the factors that influence identity in people of mixed parentage, but also to analyse why and how these influences operate. In order to do this, an ecological approach ...
The menopause transition, women's re-definition at midlife : a community survey of urban and rural women in the province of Otago, New Zealand
Menopause is a discrete physiological event which is an integral and inevitable part of the reproductive life of women. lt is the final menstrual period and marks the end of the years of fertility which begin just after ...
Pūao-te-Ata-tū and Māori social work methods
This research project critically engages with Māori social workers in order to develop an understanding of their practice methods and to ascertain whether they have changed since the 1980's. This will include a particular ...
Fundamentally photographic : the art of Bill Culbert
This thesis applies photographic theory and approaches to the interpretation of Bill Culbert' s three-dimensional installations, elucidating the interdisciplinary nature of his oeuvre. It examines the writings of Roland ...
Titles and their entitlements
The concern is with titles, and what they are entitled to do and be. The chapters that make up the thesis are about categories of titles, and so the continuity between chapters is one of theme. Chapter One proposes a point ...