Story: Farm families

More links and websites

• Gender Equal – a sustainable agriculture facilitation programme

  This 1999 MAF research report examines rural and farm women’s lives.

• Living Heritage – History of Erinwood Farm

  This exhibition by St Peter's College is a comprehensive account of one farm family in Manawatu from 1879.

More suggestions and sources

• Cant, Garth, and Russell Kirkpatrick, eds. Rural Canterbury: celebrating its history. Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates and Lincoln University Press, 2001.
• Gill, Tiiti, and others. The rural women of New Zealand – a national survey (1975). Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1976.
• Phillips, Jock. A Man’s Country?: The image of the Pakeha male – a history. Auckland: Penguin Books, 1987.
• Porter, Frances, and Charlotte Macdonald, eds. My hand will write what my heart dictates: the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends. Auckland: Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books, 1996.
• Toynbee, Claire. Her work and his: family, kin and community in New Zealand, 1900-1930. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.
• Woodhouse, A. E., ed. Tales of pioneer women. Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1940.