Story: Domestic recreation and hobbies

More links and websites

• DIY (do-it-yourself) home improvement in New Zealand

  Michael MacKay’s PhD thesis is an exploratory study of the DIY practices of 27 Christchurch homeowners.

• Sport and recreation profile: gardening

  This information about New Zealanders’ participation in gardening is from the 2007/8 Active New Zealand Survey.

• Statistics New Zealand Time Use Survey: 2009/10

  The 2009/10 Time Use Survey provides information on how New Zealanders aged 12 years and over spend their time.

More suggestions and sources

• Brookes, Barbara, Erik Olssen and Emma Beer. ‘Spare time? Leisure, gender and modernity.’ In Sites of gender: women, men and modernity in southern Dunedin, 1890–1939, edited by Barbara Brookes, Annabel Cooper and Robin Law, 151–189. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

• Cushmam, Grant, and others eds. Life in New Zealand survey: commission report. Vol. 4: Leisure. Wellington: Hillary Commission for Recreation and Sport, 1991.

• Daley, Caroline. Girls & women, men & boys: gender in Taradale, 1886–1930. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.

• Dalley, Bronwyn. Living in the 20th century: New Zealand history in photographs 1900–1980. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books and Craig Potton Publishing in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2000.

• Phillips, Jock. ‘Men, women and leisure since the Second World War.’ In The gendered kiwi, edited by Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie, 213–233. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.

• Toynbee, Claire. Her work and his: family, kin and community in New Zealand 1900–1930. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.