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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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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – War and suburbia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/29244/suburban-cabbage-patch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.