Hilary Mary Lapsley (also Hilary Mary Haines,born 1949) is a New Zealand author,psychologist and social studies academic,specialising in gender studies. She was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993,and the Judy Grahn Award for lesbian non-fiction in 2000.
Lapsley was born in Auckland in 1949 to Robin and Sylvia Lapsley,a minister and a teacher respectively.[1] Lapsley attended the University of Auckland,where she completed a Master of Arts with honours in 1979 followed by a PhD titled The origins of modern social psychology at the University of Auckland in 1980.[2]
Career
Lapsley worked as a research officer for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand,rising to deputy director,and then in 1988 was appointed as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Waikato.[1] In 2001 she became a senior analyst at the Mental Health Commission of New Zealand. Most recently Lapsley was a senior researcher at the University of Auckland,and contributed to the Ageing WellNational Science Challenge.[3][4] Lapsley was a National Convenor of the Women's Studies Association,and as of October2024[update] serves on the committee.[5][1] Lapsley wrote a book on the professional and personal relationship between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict,which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2001.[6][7][8]
Personal life
Lapsley used to live on Waiheke Island,but bought into the Cohaus co-housing development in Grey Lynn with her partner Lois Cox. They divide their time between Auckland and Cox's home in Wellington.[9] Lapsley and Cox have written three lesbian mystery novels together,under the pen name Jennifer Palgrave.[10][11]
Honours and awards
In 1992 Lapsley was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship,[12] and in 1993 she was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[13] The medal was given to recognize those people who had made a significant contribution to women's rights or women's issues in New Zealand. She was awarded the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for lesbian non-fiction in 2000 for her book on Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.[1]
Hilary Lapsley; Ngaire Kerse; Simon A. Moyes; Sally Keeling; Marama Leigh Muru-Lanning; Janine Wiles; Santosh Jatrana (19 November 2018). "Do household living arrangements explain gender and ethnicity differences in receipt of support services? Findings from LiLACS NZ Māori and non-Māori advanced age cohorts". Ageing & Society. 40 (5): 1004–1020. doi:10.1017/S0144686X18001514. ISSN0144-686X. WikidataQ130510748.
References
1 2 3 4 "Hilary Lapsley.". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale In Context: Biography. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. 2008.
↑ "Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: the kinship of women". Choice Reviews Online. 37 (8): 37–4577-37-4577. 1 April 2000. doi:10.5860/choice.37-4577 (inactive 1 February 2025). ISSN0009-4978.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2025 (link)
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