Barbara Brookes
Biographic Data
| ID | 113841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Brookes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Brookes |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Jumping Sundays
From Crime to Care
Pacific Futures
Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge
Papering over madness
Through an examination of New Zealand legislation governing lunacy and the files from the Seacliff Asylum, this article argues how paperwork served to uphold an elusive ideal of a compassionate society. Paper, in the form of letters, reports and forms, was sent up and down the country in order to prevent wrongful confinement and to monitor costs and cure rates. Paper provided for patients allowed them to challenge their incarceration, sometimes s…
Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash
Lively debates about the enfranchisement of women took place across the globe in the period 1890 to 1920. Strong feelings were expressed on both sides. Those at the forefront of the campaign for wo
Origins, Traditions and ‘Civilisation’
A History of New Zealand Women
Paul and Brookes Respond
AffiliationsCharlotte Paul is emeritus professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Barbara Brookes is professor in the Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Rationalization of Unethical Research
Two studies, widely condemned in the 1970s and 1980s—the Tuskegee study of men with untreated syphilis and the New Zealand study of women with untreated carcinoma in situ of the cervix—received new defenses in the 21st century. We noted remarkable similarities in both the studies and their defenses. Here we evaluate the scientific, political, and moral claims of the defenders. The scientific claims are largely based on incomplete or misinterprete…
Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s
Reviewed by: Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers by Laura Kelly Barbara L. Brookes Laura Kelly. Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xvi + 255 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-0-71908-835-3). The title of Enid Moberly Bell’s 1953 chronicle of women’s fight to enter medicine in the United Kingdom, Storming the Citadel, encapsulates the kind o…
The Politics of Knowledge
This article argues that growing confidence in anthropology as a tool for managing the adaptation of a resurgent Māori population to modernity shaped a “politics of knowledge” regarding New Zealand's indigenous people in the mid-twentieth century. We examine the relationship between anthropological discourse, state policy, and the Māori struggle to uphold traditional ways, through the prism of Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole's psycho-ethnographic stu…
Shame and Its Histories in the Twentieth Century
Human emotions have been described as 'a map of our values'.2 In this paper I want to argue for a new direction in our history that takes emotions seriously. What role did hope play, for example, in propelling immigrants to this side of the world? What was the emotional content of the conversion experience that led some Maori to adopt Christianity? How do we understand desire as a motivating force for people's actions in the past
Technology and gender
Over the course of the twentieth century, the technology in involved in hairdressing changed significantly. Women hairdressers enthusiastically adopted technological innovations for cosmetic purposes while barbers resisted change. Unlike other trades where feminization suggested deskilling, in ladies' hairdressing women became more skilled, and when men adopted longer hair, many male barbers went out of business. Technology played an important ro…
Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness
Journal Article Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980 Get access Antje Kampf, Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007. Pp. 272. €29.90. ISBN 978 3 8258 9765 9. Barbara Brookes Barbara Brookes University of Otago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History…
Gender, Work and Fears of a 'Hybrid Race' in 1920s New Zealand
The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Maori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in which masculine fears of racial degradation through miscegenation - of a 'hybrid' Chinese/Maori race - operated within a hierarchy of race, gender and Iwi (tribal) interests. The participation of Maori men in national politics contributed to a new articulation of 'National Manhood', in which Maori men and white men combined to…
Sites of Gender
This study is the fruit of five years' work by a group of Dunedin scholars into the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin in the years from 1890 to World War II. It is significant in several ways: in its reliance on the huge database developed from the 1970s by the Caversham Project; in its interdisciplinary character, with contributions from the fields …
Taking Private Life Seriously
In her path‐breaking book, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation , Nancy Cott notes how although marriage is commonly viewed as part of private life, assumptions about marriage have been an integral part of public policy and had implications for citizenship. A number of American colonies passed laws that aimed to prevent intermarriage between white and Negro or mulatto persons, in order to retain the dominance of the white race. Marri…
Hygiene, Health, And Bodily Knowledge, 1880-1940
One of the key aims of the Dunedin Southern Suburbs project has been to examine the factors that structured opportunity in a period of rapid modernization in New Zealand, 1880-1940. This article argues that health was a key determinant of opportunity and examines how people thought about their bodies and sought to maintain health. It argues that older, humoral theories about health were maintained alongside new understandings wrought by the germ …
At Home in New Zealand
These lively essays edited by Barbara Brookes bring together historical research and social analysis to examine many aspects of the New Zealand home – work, domesticity, leisure, style and even the development of national culture
When Abortion Was a Crime
Making girls modern
This article is about the experience of menstruation, a function which many women spend much of their lives concealing. It is a topic which many regard as intensely private. Some, men and women, consider it distasteful and others still, historically unchanging and inconsequential. The authors argue that menstruation has played an important role in the twentieth-century construction of ‘womanhood’, and in constituting women as ‘the other’ in the e…
Making girls modern
This article is about the experience of menstruation, a function which many women spend much of their lives concealing. It is a topic which many regard as intensely private. Some, men and women, consider it distasteful and others still, historically unchanging and inconsequential. The authors argue that menstruation has played an important role in the twentieth-century construction of ‘womanhood’, and in constituting women as ‘the other’ in the e…
Nostalgia for ‘innocent homely pleasures’
In 1964, the New Zealand Department of Education withdrew and destroyed 38,000 copies of Washday at the Pa , a booklet depicting Maori family life, at the request of the Maori Women’s Welfare League. This essay explores the raced and gendered context of the ensuing uproar in the press, which debated aspects of New Zealand identity. It situates the Washday controversy in the context of post‐war housing and differential standards of living experien…
Gender, Work and Fears of a 'Hybrid Race' in 1920s New Zealand
The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Maori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in which masculine fears of racial degradation through miscegenation - of a 'hybrid' Chinese/Maori race - operated within a hierarchy of race, gender and Iwi (tribal) interests. The participation of Maori men in national politics contributed to a new articulation of 'National Manhood', in which Maori men and white men combined to…
The Rationalization of Unethical Research
Two studies, widely condemned in the 1970s and 1980s—the Tuskegee study of men with untreated syphilis and the New Zealand study of women with untreated carcinoma in situ of the cervix—received new defenses in the 21st century. We noted remarkable similarities in both the studies and their defenses. Here we evaluate the scientific, political, and moral claims of the defenders. The scientific claims are largely based on incomplete or misinterprete…
Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge
Shame and Its Histories in the Twentieth Century
Human emotions have been described as 'a map of our values'.2 In this paper I want to argue for a new direction in our history that takes emotions seriously. What role did hope play, for example, in propelling immigrants to this side of the world? What was the emotional content of the conversion experience that led some Maori to adopt Christianity? How do we understand desire as a motivating force for people's actions in the past
The Politics of Knowledge
This article argues that growing confidence in anthropology as a tool for managing the adaptation of a resurgent Māori population to modernity shaped a “politics of knowledge” regarding New Zealand's indigenous people in the mid-twentieth century. We examine the relationship between anthropological discourse, state policy, and the Māori struggle to uphold traditional ways, through the prism of Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole's psycho-ethnographic stu…
Taking Private Life Seriously
In her path‐breaking book, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation , Nancy Cott notes how although marriage is commonly viewed as part of private life, assumptions about marriage have been an integral part of public policy and had implications for citizenship. A number of American colonies passed laws that aimed to prevent intermarriage between white and Negro or mulatto persons, in order to retain the dominance of the white race. Marri…
Making girls modern
This article is about the experience of menstruation, a function which many women spend much of their lives concealing. It is a topic which many regard as intensely private. Some, men and women, consider it distasteful and others still, historically unchanging and inconsequential. The authors argue that menstruation has played an important role in the twentieth-century construction of ‘womanhood’, and in constituting women as ‘the other’ in the e…
Nostalgia for ‘innocent homely pleasures’
In 1964, the New Zealand Department of Education withdrew and destroyed 38,000 copies of Washday at the Pa , a booklet depicting Maori family life, at the request of the Maori Women’s Welfare League. This essay explores the raced and gendered context of the ensuing uproar in the press, which debated aspects of New Zealand identity. It situates the Washday controversy in the context of post‐war housing and differential standards of living experien…
Women in History
The New Health Service in New Zealand
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) raises questions that are important to be left ot policy analysts and economists. Those who utilize CEA should acknowledge its inherent value system and adapt it to a more ethical usage. Even while under fire for soaring health care costs, American medicine remains without a systematic plan for the allocation of either public or private funds. The percentage of Gross Nat…
Abortion in England, 1900-1967
Women in History 2
Nostalgia for ‘innocent homely pleasures’
In 1964, the New Zealand Department of Education withdrew and destroyed 38,000 copies of Washday at the Pa , a booklet depicting Maori family life, at the request of the Maori Women’s Welfare League. This essay explores the raced and gendered context of the ensuing uproar in the press, which debated aspects of New Zealand identity. It situates the Washday controversy in the context of post‐war housing and differential standards of living experien…
When Abortion Was a Crime
Making girls modern
This article is about the experience of menstruation, a function which many women spend much of their lives concealing. It is a topic which many regard as intensely private. Some, men and women, consider it distasteful and others still, historically unchanging and inconsequential. The authors argue that menstruation has played an important role in the twentieth-century construction of ‘womanhood’, and in constituting women as ‘the other’ in the e…
Making girls modern
This article is about the experience of menstruation, a function which many women spend much of their lives concealing. It is a topic which many regard as intensely private. Some, men and women, consider it distasteful and others still, historically unchanging and inconsequential. The authors argue that menstruation has played an important role in the twentieth-century construction of ‘womanhood’, and in constituting women as ‘the other’ in the e…
At Home in New Zealand
These lively essays edited by Barbara Brookes bring together historical research and social analysis to examine many aspects of the New Zealand home – work, domesticity, leisure, style and even the development of national culture
Taking Private Life Seriously
In her path‐breaking book, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation , Nancy Cott notes how although marriage is commonly viewed as part of private life, assumptions about marriage have been an integral part of public policy and had implications for citizenship. A number of American colonies passed laws that aimed to prevent intermarriage between white and Negro or mulatto persons, in order to retain the dominance of the white race. Marri…
Hygiene, Health, And Bodily Knowledge, 1880-1940
One of the key aims of the Dunedin Southern Suburbs project has been to examine the factors that structured opportunity in a period of rapid modernization in New Zealand, 1880-1940. This article argues that health was a key determinant of opportunity and examines how people thought about their bodies and sought to maintain health. It argues that older, humoral theories about health were maintained alongside new understandings wrought by the germ …
Sites of Gender
This study is the fruit of five years' work by a group of Dunedin scholars into the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin in the years from 1890 to World War II. It is significant in several ways: in its reliance on the huge database developed from the 1970s by the Caversham Project; in its interdisciplinary character, with contributions from the fields …
Gender, Work and Fears of a 'Hybrid Race' in 1920s New Zealand
The 1929 New Zealand Committee of Inquiry into the Employment of Maori on Market Gardens affords insight into the ways in which masculine fears of racial degradation through miscegenation - of a 'hybrid' Chinese/Maori race - operated within a hierarchy of race, gender and Iwi (tribal) interests. The participation of Maori men in national politics contributed to a new articulation of 'National Manhood', in which Maori men and white men combined to…
Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness
Journal Article Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980 Get access Antje Kampf, Mapping Out the Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand 1920–1980, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007. Pp. 272. €29.90. ISBN 978 3 8258 9765 9. Barbara Brookes Barbara Brookes University of Otago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History…
Technology and gender
Over the course of the twentieth century, the technology in involved in hairdressing changed significantly. Women hairdressers enthusiastically adopted technological innovations for cosmetic purposes while barbers resisted change. Unlike other trades where feminization suggested deskilling, in ladies' hairdressing women became more skilled, and when men adopted longer hair, many male barbers went out of business. Technology played an important ro…
Shame and Its Histories in the Twentieth Century
Human emotions have been described as 'a map of our values'.2 In this paper I want to argue for a new direction in our history that takes emotions seriously. What role did hope play, for example, in propelling immigrants to this side of the world? What was the emotional content of the conversion experience that led some Maori to adopt Christianity? How do we understand desire as a motivating force for people's actions in the past
The Politics of Knowledge
This article argues that growing confidence in anthropology as a tool for managing the adaptation of a resurgent Māori population to modernity shaped a “politics of knowledge” regarding New Zealand's indigenous people in the mid-twentieth century. We examine the relationship between anthropological discourse, state policy, and the Māori struggle to uphold traditional ways, through the prism of Ernest and Pearl Beaglehole's psycho-ethnographic stu…
Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s
Reviewed by: Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers by Laura Kelly Barbara L. Brookes Laura Kelly. Irish Women in Medicine, c.1880s–1920s: Origins, Education, and Careers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xvi + 255 pp. Ill. $95.00 (978-0-71908-835-3). The title of Enid Moberly Bell’s 1953 chronicle of women’s fight to enter medicine in the United Kingdom, Storming the Citadel, encapsulates the kind o…
The Rationalization of Unethical Research
Two studies, widely condemned in the 1970s and 1980s—the Tuskegee study of men with untreated syphilis and the New Zealand study of women with untreated carcinoma in situ of the cervix—received new defenses in the 21st century. We noted remarkable similarities in both the studies and their defenses. Here we evaluate the scientific, political, and moral claims of the defenders. The scientific claims are largely based on incomplete or misinterprete…
Origins, Traditions and ‘Civilisation’
A History of New Zealand Women
Paul and Brookes Respond
AffiliationsCharlotte Paul is emeritus professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Barbara Brookes is professor in the Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Pacific Futures
Bureaucracy, archive files, and the making of knowledge
Papering over madness
Through an examination of New Zealand legislation governing lunacy and the files from the Seacliff Asylum, this article argues how paperwork served to uphold an elusive ideal of a compassionate society. Paper, in the form of letters, reports and forms, was sent up and down the country in order to prevent wrongful confinement and to monitor costs and cure rates. Paper provided for patients allowed them to challenge their incarceration, sometimes s…
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