Research Catalog

Title

Past caring? : women, work and emotion / edited by Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe & Angela Wanhalla.

Publication

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Brookes, Barbara L. (Barbara Lesley), 1955-
• McCabe, Jane
• Wanhalla, Angela

Description

288 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

Are women past caring? Care is essential to social relationships and individual well-being. It is woven into New Zealand's key social institutions, such as the family, and is also embedded in societal expectations around state provision of health and welfare. Care is so vital, in fact, that it is often taken for granted and goes unnoticed and unrewarded. Historical and philosophical enquiry have largely ignored the issue of care, yet it raises profound questions about gender, justice and morality. The essays in this volume raise those questions directly at the level of abstraction where prominent New Zealand women philosophers grappled with the political implications, and on the ground at the level of family relationships. Understanding the history of care requires attention to personal narratives, such as a Māori grandmother's story, a Rarotongan leader's concept of duty to her people, or the sense of service that drove a long-term social worker. Memories of childhood night-time care are carried across the ocean from North East India. The depiction of sole-carer mothers in New Zealand film suggests a caring alternative to the celebrated concept of man alone. The case studies examined focus on the everyday nature of care operating across domestic, institutional and political spaces, and build upon areas of strength in women's history with its interest in family, motherhood, health, welfare, education and employment. The foundations of Past Caring? lie with Making Women Visible, a national conference on women's history held at the University of Otago in February 2016. This important volume opens up a set of perspectives and experiences of caring to begin a conversation about urgent questions facing New Zealand society. How do we recognise, reward and do justice to those acts that hold our society together?

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Women > New Zealand > Social conditions
• Women > New Zealand > History > 20th century
• Women
• Women > Social conditions
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Care matters / Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe & Angela Wanhalla -- 1. Contextualising caring in New Zealand / Barbara Brookes -- 2. Annette Baier and Susan Moller Okin: debating the ethic of care and ethic of justice / Heather Devere -- 3. Tina: Wh( -- )anau, whenua and care / Melissa Matutina Williams -- 4. In the darkness of night: traversing worlds through the concept of ayah care / Jane McCabe -- 5. Helen Smaill's photograph album: traces of care in the mission archive / Antje L(..)ubcke -- 6. Feeding the family: P( -- )keh( -- )a and M( -- )aori women in rural districts, c.1900 -- 1940 / Katie Cooper -- 7. Stitching the generations together: clothing and care / Barbara Brookes, Katie Cooper, Heather Devere, Jane McCabe, Bronwyn Polaschek, Margaret Tennant & Angela Wanhalla -- 8. 'Private Smith, of U.S.A., & Miss Brown, of N.Z.': New Zealand's American children 1942 -- 45 / Angela Wanhalla -- 9. The mother alone: solo mothers in New Zealand cinema / Bronwyn Polaschek -- 10. 'They think I care not': taking account of Takau Rio love / Rosemary Anderson -- 11. Helpers, reformers and muddlers: social work and the professionalism of caring / Margaret Tennant -- Select bibliography: women, work and care / Violeta Gilabert -- Contributors.

Call Number

JFE 19-5074

ISBN

• 1988531349
• 9781988531342

OCLC

1040192386

Title

Past caring? : women, work and emotion / edited by Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe & Angela Wanhalla.

Publisher

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

ED: UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO. BASED ON 2016 CONFERENCE.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Brookes, Barbara L. (Barbara Lesley), 1955- editor.

McCabe, Jane, editor.

Wanhalla, Angela, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-5074