New Women's Press

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New Women's Press (NWP) was an independent book publisher founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 1982. [1] New Women's Press's mandate was to publish books "by, for, and about women." [1] Wendy Harrex ran New Women's Press for 11 years. [2] Over that time, NWP published over 70 [3] titles of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, as well as an annual diary, Herstory, that highlighted groups of New Zealand women. The Haeata Collective of Māori women artists was originally founded to produce a Herstory edition for NWP. [4] NWP also published the first anthology of New Zealand women's fiction, which was edited by Cathie Dunsford. [5]

The Broadsheet feminist magazine and NWP celebrated a joint anniversary (Broadsheet's twentieth and NWP's tenth) on 19 September 1992, with a Suffrage Day event in Auckland, attended by more than 200 women. [3] The event was part of the Listener Women's Book Festival, and was also the launch of Been Around for Quite a While. Speakers included Pat Rosier, Sandra Coney, Wendy Harrex, Stephanie Johnson and Sheridan Keith. [3]

In an article surveying the state of women's publishing in New Zealand, Laurel Bergmann describes New Women's Press as "an important part of the process of legitimation of women fiction writers", particularly due to the New Women's Fiction anthology series that provided opportunities to new writers to publish alongside established voices. [6] [7] Janet Wilson has noted that this anthology series "confirmed the development of a new market and readership" for writing by women. [8]

List of Publications

TitleAuthor/EditorsSeriesYear of

Publication

ISBN
New Women's Calendar 19821981
Healthy Women: A self-help guide to good healthSarah Calvert19820 908652 00 3
New Zealand Herstory 1983Hamilton Women's CollectiveHerstory19820 908652 01 1
Born Beneath a Rainbow: Memories of a country childhoodJudith Ellmers19830 908652 02 X
Self Defence for WomenSue Lytollis19830 908652 03 8
New Zealand Herstory 1984Herstory1983
Nest in a Falling Tree Joy Cowley New Women's Classics19840 908652 08 9
The Love ContractMargaret SutherlandNew Women's Classics19840 908652 10 0
Dragon Rampant Robin Hyde New Women's Classics19840 908652 07 0
Deep BreathingLora Mountjoy19840 908652 13 5
Haeata Herstory 1985Haeata Herstory CollectiveHerstory19840 908652 12 7
Women's Studies: A New Zealand HandbookCandis Craven, Claire-Louise McCurdy,

Pat Rosier & Margot Roth

19850 908652 15 1
Recipes My Mother Taught MeReinza Goldwater19850 908652 14 3
Herstory 1986Rural Women's NetworkHerstory19850 908652 16 X
Save the MidwifeJoan Donley19860 908652 05 4
Self Defence for WomenSue LyttolisReprint19860 908652 03 8
New Women's FictionEd. Cathie DunsfordNew Women's Fiction19860 908652 18 6
The Daughter-in-Law and Other Stories Frances Cherry 19860 908652 19 4
The Old-Time Maori Makereti New Women's Classics19860 908652 11 9
Nor the Years Condemn Robin Hyde New Women's Classics19860 908652 09 7
Peace is More than the Absence Gil Hanly, Sonja Davies 19860 908652 23 5
Herstory 1987Herstory '87 CollectiveHerstory19860 908652 21 6
Candles and Canvas: A Danish Family in New ZealandPoula Langkilde-Christie19870 908652 22 4
Twenty-Eight Days in KiribatiClaudia Pond Eyley and Robin White19870 908652 24 0
Feet Across AmericaAnne Macfarlane19870 908652 25 9
2 Deaths in 1 Night Janet Charman 19870 908652 27 5
Poorman Oranges: Women in community houses in AucklandWensley Willcox19870 908652 29 1
Herstory 1988: Women & BooksNew Women's PressHerstory19870 908652 28 3
New Women's Fiction 2Ed. Aorewa McLeodNew Women's Fiction19880 908652 30 5
The Glass Whittler: Short Stories Stephanie Johnson 19880 908652 33 X
Tai: Heart of a Tree Momoe Malietoa von Reiche 19880 908652 36 4
Guts, Tears & Glory:

Champion New Zealand Sportswomen talk to Trish Stratford

Trish Stratford19880 908652 31 3
Herstory 1989 (on women in sport)Lisa Hayes & Clare SimpsonHerstory19880 908652 34 8
Healing Your ChildFrances & Louise Darragh19890 908652 26 7
Premenstrual SyndromeHelen DuckworthNew Women's

Handbook Series

19890 908652 44 5
No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who have

problems with food

Jasbindar Singh & Pat Rosier New Women's

Handbook Series

19890 908652 46 1
Wednesday’s Children Robin Hyde New Women's Classics19890 908652 37 2
New Women's Fiction 3Mary Paul & Marion RaeNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 43 7
The Wintering HouseAlexandria ChalmersNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 40 2
One Plain, One Purl: Stories of a GirlhoodCarin SvenssonNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 41 0
Tahuri Ngahuia Te Awekotuku New Women's Fiction19890 908652 42 9
Dancing with Strings Frances Cherry New Women's Fiction19890 908652 32 1
To Be So OldGwen Skinner19900 908652 47 X
The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian writing from Australia & NZCathie Dunsford & Susan Hawthorne 19900 908652 51 8
Home Away from Home Manying Ip 19900 908652 45 3
Victoria in MaorilandMargaret BrayNew Women's Fiction19900 908652 50 X
Self Defence for WomenSue LytollisReprint19900 908652 03 8
Premenstrual SyndromeHelen DuckworthAttic Press Edition19900 946211 67 1
No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who have

problems with food

Jasbindar Singh & Pat RosierAttic Press Edition19901 85594 007 8
Women in Mid-LifeLeteia PotterNew Women's

Handbook Series

19910 908652 53 4
Parker & Hulme: A Lesbian ViewJulie Glamuzina & Alison Laurie19910 908652 54 2
Sailing Away: New Zealand Women in Sailing 1920-1990Jann Iorns19910 908652 57 7
Mana Wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's

art, culture and politics

 Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 19910 908652 63 1
New Women's Fiction 4Wendy Harrex & Lynsey FerrariNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 64 8
The Widowhood of Jacki Bates Frances Cherry New Women's Fiction19910 908652 61 5
Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket Sheridan Keith New Women's Fiction19910 908652 58 5
An Unusually Clumsy LoverCarin SvenssonNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 60 7
Animal Passions Sheridan Keith 19920 908652 66 6
Crimes of Neglect Stephanie Johnson 19920 908652 65 8
The Woman Question: Writings by the women who won the voteSelected by Margaret Lovell-Smith19920 908652 67 4
Broadsheet: Twenty Years of Broadsheet MagazineEd. Pat Rosier 19920 908652 68 2
Invisible Families: A resource for Family and friends

of lesbian or gay daughters and sons

Terry Stewart19930 908652 69 0
Healing Your ChildFrances & Louise Darraghreprint19940 908652 26 7

References

  1. 1 2 Taylor, Renee (October 1982). "Feminists Impress" (PDF). Broadsheet (103): 10–11 – via Auckland University Library.
  2. ↑ Smith, Charmian (17 January 2009). "From book lovers to book covers". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "The twentieth birthday of Broadsheet and the tenth of New Women's Press". Broadsheet Magazine. 196: 33. Summer 1992.
  4. ↑ "Haeata | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s". Newsroom. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Bergmann, Laurel (January 1994). "Where to from here?: contemporary New Zealand women's fiction". Hecate. 20 (2): 217–218 – via Informit.
  7. ↑ Wilson, Janet (10 July 2019). "Contemporary Women's Writing in New Zealand". Kunapipi. 16 (1). ISSN   0106-5734.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Janet (2006). "Anthologies of women's writing". In Robinson, Roger; Wattie, Nelson (eds.). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-1917-3519-6. OCLC   865265749 . Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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