Kathryn Montgomery Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Montgomery Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn Montgomery |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6775-6190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An open window
The notion of the First World War being emancipatory for women has been, if not dismissed, then highly qualified. Understanding the postwar renegotiation of gender roles, however, is a complex task, especially in a society in which women’s enfranchisement had long been secured. This article aims to contribute to debates about women’s experiences of the transition from war to peace and is based on the weekly women’s pages in two New Zealand newspa…
Khaki on the Stage and Silver Screen in Interwar Australasia
Making meaning from the First World War was not only the preserve of the poets, novelists and historians who helped shape Anglophone modern memory. In Australasian theatres, halls and cinemas in the 1920s and 1930s, the war formed a backdrop for drama, adventure, romance and comedy. “Tommies”, diggers, plucky nurses and courageous widows populated vaudeville and movies, helping Australians and New Zealanders make sense of their war. Exploring the…
Furs in early twentieth-century New Zealand
The First World War was a complex moment in the history of dress and garment manufacture. Materials and textile production were diverted largely to war manufacturing, and the meanings of clothing became caught up in particular notions of loyalty and patriotism. One change in dress that has received little attention was the growth of the fur garment and trim industry in these years of fashion austerity. New Zealand provides a fascinating case stud…
Mutual Friends
Social and cultural histories of the enduring effects of the First World War have, understandably, focused on trauma, bereavement and disability. Other effects that might arguably be regarded as positive – those that resulted from exposure to a broad range of people in a global and multi-ethnic, multi-religious event – have not only been more difficult to trace, but are possibly less palatable in modern rememberings of war. This article uses two …
Red ink, blue ink, blood and tears? War records and nation-making in Australia and New Zealand
Despite the rise of comparative and transnational history writing, histories of the Great War have remained remarkably bound by the nation-state. This is especially the case in Australia and New Zealand, where there has been, arguably, a recent entrenchment of the view of the Great War as a nation-making moment. This article offers the provocation that the creation of vast numbers of records during the war did make the nation: files demanded a ne…
National and Imperial Belonging in Wartime
The Great War is considered nationally foundational in both Australia and New Zealand. Yet, as critics of this view point out, British subjecthood remained important and sometimes central to identity at this time. This article pulls two threads from this tangled knot of belonging at a time when identifying and regulating loyal populations was critical. Looking at evidence of those Australians and New Zealanders who served in imperial forces and o…
Silence in Noisy Archives
Feminist historians have long been concerned with the silencing of women's voices and experiences in archives. In 1986 Judith Allen was one of many feminists pushing back against the positivist idea that history comprised only those traces of the past that could be salvaged in the present. Archives are radically different now in breadth, composition, production and technologies to those in which Allen was working, but are her concerns about the n…
The Grace of Goodness’. John Saunders
‘The Grace of Goodness’. John Saunders: Baptist Pastor and Activist, 1834–1848. A Documentary Biography." Australian Historical Studies, 47(1), p. 187
I Think I Am Becoming a New Zealander’
‘I Think I Am Becoming a New Zealander’: Letters of J.C. Beaglehole." Australian Historical Studies, 45(3), pp. 475–476
More than an Archive of War
New Zealand Hunters in Africa
Twenty years after the publication of John MacKenzie's Empire of Nature, his characterisation of sport hunting tourism as a symbol of elite and imperial privilege remains strong. Using the example of two white hunters from New Zealand and their trip to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in 1926, this article elaborates upon MacKenzie's brief mention of hunters in Africa from cultures other than Britain. In particular, the article argues that ‘home’ hunti…
Rough riding
On Saint Patrick's Day 1906, 3,000 people, including the Governor of New South Wales, squeezed into a 'tight little box of an arena' in Sydney's Rawson Place to watch a rough riding competition between two of the most famous riders of the time: Lance Skuthorpe, 36, and Billy Waite, a 23-year-old Aboriginal man.For this contest they had the choice of six horses, including the most notorious buckjumper of the day, 'Bobs'.A scroll trailed down over …
Sleep on dear Ernie, your battles are o’er’
Focusing on Invercargill, one of the southernmost regional towns in the South Island, New Zealand, this article re-examines one of the clichés of the First World War: that few families were untouched by loss and grief. The analysis, using the community as the point of origin, provides evidence for two arguments. First, that soldiers had considerably more latitude in their expressions and rituals of bereavement than did families; and second, that …
Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter
In the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature o…
Remaking the Case
Remaking the Case' Kathryn Montgomery Hunter To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. —Traditional saying Narrative persists in medicine, as it does in the human sciences generally, as both a source of information and a means of organizing its interpretation. Unscientific though narrative may seem, the case is not only a record of medical attention provided a patient, but the fundamental unit of medical discourse and the pattern fo…
Doctors' Stories
Toward the Cultural Interpretation of Medicine
Toward the Cultural Interpretation of Medicine Kathryn Montgomery Hunter The first volume of Literature and Medicine is frankly introductory. It bears the subtitle Toward a New Discipline and is packed with speculative and explanatory pieces about the conjunction of two apparently disparate kinds of knowledge.1 Was literature and medicine to be a scholarly discipline ? A movement to reform medical practice? A service teaching enterprise or a more…
Making a Case
Making a Case" Kathryn Montgomery Hunter The controversy provoked by David Barnard's "A Case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" and Eric Rabkin's attack upon it is something of a milestone in the development of literature and medicine.1 It is not just that (as a colleague of mine once taunted me) the criteria of an independent discipline include, along with an annual meeting and a journal , a measurable level of internecine strife; the topic of th…
What we do
The satiric image
Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
Silence in Noisy Archives
Feminist historians have long been concerned with the silencing of women's voices and experiences in archives. In 1986 Judith Allen was one of many feminists pushing back against the positivist idea that history comprised only those traces of the past that could be salvaged in the present. Archives are radically different now in breadth, composition, production and technologies to those in which Allen was working, but are her concerns about the n…
New Zealand Hunters in Africa
Twenty years after the publication of John MacKenzie's Empire of Nature, his characterisation of sport hunting tourism as a symbol of elite and imperial privilege remains strong. Using the example of two white hunters from New Zealand and their trip to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in 1926, this article elaborates upon MacKenzie's brief mention of hunters in Africa from cultures other than Britain. In particular, the article argues that ‘home’ hunti…
More than an Archive of War
The satiric image
What we do
Making a Case
Making a Case" Kathryn Montgomery Hunter The controversy provoked by David Barnard's "A Case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis" and Eric Rabkin's attack upon it is something of a milestone in the development of literature and medicine.1 It is not just that (as a colleague of mine once taunted me) the criteria of an independent discipline include, along with an annual meeting and a journal , a measurable level of internecine strife; the topic of th…
Doctors' Stories
Toward the Cultural Interpretation of Medicine
Toward the Cultural Interpretation of Medicine Kathryn Montgomery Hunter The first volume of Literature and Medicine is frankly introductory. It bears the subtitle Toward a New Discipline and is packed with speculative and explanatory pieces about the conjunction of two apparently disparate kinds of knowledge.1 Was literature and medicine to be a scholarly discipline ? A movement to reform medical practice? A service teaching enterprise or a more…
Remaking the Case
Remaking the Case' Kathryn Montgomery Hunter To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. —Traditional saying Narrative persists in medicine, as it does in the human sciences generally, as both a source of information and a means of organizing its interpretation. Unscientific though narrative may seem, the case is not only a record of medical attention provided a patient, but the fundamental unit of medical discourse and the pattern fo…
The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter
In the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature o…
Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand and the United States
Sleep on dear Ernie, your battles are o’er’
Focusing on Invercargill, one of the southernmost regional towns in the South Island, New Zealand, this article re-examines one of the clichés of the First World War: that few families were untouched by loss and grief. The analysis, using the community as the point of origin, provides evidence for two arguments. First, that soldiers had considerably more latitude in their expressions and rituals of bereavement than did families; and second, that …
Rough riding
On Saint Patrick's Day 1906, 3,000 people, including the Governor of New South Wales, squeezed into a 'tight little box of an arena' in Sydney's Rawson Place to watch a rough riding competition between two of the most famous riders of the time: Lance Skuthorpe, 36, and Billy Waite, a 23-year-old Aboriginal man.For this contest they had the choice of six horses, including the most notorious buckjumper of the day, 'Bobs'.A scroll trailed down over …
New Zealand Hunters in Africa
Twenty years after the publication of John MacKenzie's Empire of Nature, his characterisation of sport hunting tourism as a symbol of elite and imperial privilege remains strong. Using the example of two white hunters from New Zealand and their trip to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in 1926, this article elaborates upon MacKenzie's brief mention of hunters in Africa from cultures other than Britain. In particular, the article argues that ‘home’ hunti…
More than an Archive of War
I Think I Am Becoming a New Zealander’
‘I Think I Am Becoming a New Zealander’: Letters of J.C. Beaglehole." Australian Historical Studies, 45(3), pp. 475–476
The Grace of Goodness’. John Saunders
‘The Grace of Goodness’. John Saunders: Baptist Pastor and Activist, 1834–1848. A Documentary Biography." Australian Historical Studies, 47(1), p. 187
National and Imperial Belonging in Wartime
The Great War is considered nationally foundational in both Australia and New Zealand. Yet, as critics of this view point out, British subjecthood remained important and sometimes central to identity at this time. This article pulls two threads from this tangled knot of belonging at a time when identifying and regulating loyal populations was critical. Looking at evidence of those Australians and New Zealanders who served in imperial forces and o…
Silence in Noisy Archives
Feminist historians have long been concerned with the silencing of women's voices and experiences in archives. In 1986 Judith Allen was one of many feminists pushing back against the positivist idea that history comprised only those traces of the past that could be salvaged in the present. Archives are radically different now in breadth, composition, production and technologies to those in which Allen was working, but are her concerns about the n…
Red ink, blue ink, blood and tears? War records and nation-making in Australia and New Zealand
Despite the rise of comparative and transnational history writing, histories of the Great War have remained remarkably bound by the nation-state. This is especially the case in Australia and New Zealand, where there has been, arguably, a recent entrenchment of the view of the Great War as a nation-making moment. This article offers the provocation that the creation of vast numbers of records during the war did make the nation: files demanded a ne…
Furs in early twentieth-century New Zealand
The First World War was a complex moment in the history of dress and garment manufacture. Materials and textile production were diverted largely to war manufacturing, and the meanings of clothing became caught up in particular notions of loyalty and patriotism. One change in dress that has received little attention was the growth of the fur garment and trim industry in these years of fashion austerity. New Zealand provides a fascinating case stud…
Mutual Friends
Social and cultural histories of the enduring effects of the First World War have, understandably, focused on trauma, bereavement and disability. Other effects that might arguably be regarded as positive – those that resulted from exposure to a broad range of people in a global and multi-ethnic, multi-religious event – have not only been more difficult to trace, but are possibly less palatable in modern rememberings of war. This article uses two …
Khaki on the Stage and Silver Screen in Interwar Australasia
Making meaning from the First World War was not only the preserve of the poets, novelists and historians who helped shape Anglophone modern memory. In Australasian theatres, halls and cinemas in the 1920s and 1930s, the war formed a backdrop for drama, adventure, romance and comedy. “Tommies”, diggers, plucky nurses and courageous widows populated vaudeville and movies, helping Australians and New Zealanders make sense of their war. Exploring the…
An open window
The notion of the First World War being emancipatory for women has been, if not dismissed, then highly qualified. Understanding the postwar renegotiation of gender roles, however, is a complex task, especially in a society in which women’s enfranchisement had long been secured. This article aims to contribute to debates about women’s experiences of the transition from war to peace and is based on the weekly women’s pages in two New Zealand newspa…
History (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (10 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · Law (7 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)