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Kōrero: Women and men

Suburban cabbage patch

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Suburban cabbage patch

The gloss had worn off suburban life for many women by 1968 when Thursdaymagazine, which billed itself as 'the magazine for younger women', published this issue with the headline 'who says I'm a cabbage?'. It questioned whether women in the suburbs were becoming 'cabbages'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: S-L 76-COVER

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – War and suburbia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/29244/suburban-cabbage-patch (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.