Women at the Stout Centre

Authors

  • Wendy Pond
  • Jane Tolerton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v1i1.233

Abstract

The Victoria University Federation of Women, with assistance from the 1990 Commission, mounted a historical display titled 'Women at Victoria' at various venues within the University during August 1990. Accounts of women who have been resident at the Stout Research Centre were included, and document the deeply appreciated role played by the Stout in advancing the work of women researchers. Brief biographical profiles are prresented here.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Wendy Pond

Wendy Pond, editor of New Zealand Studies, has a long association with the Stout Centre. She has recently completed a commission from the Waitangi Tribunal to write a background report on the 'Flora and Fauna' claim (Wai 262), titled The Land with All Woods and Waters.

Jane Tolerton

A freelance writer, came to the Stout Centre in 1987 to write a biography of Ettie Rout, the New Zealander best known for her 'safe sex' campaign among the ANZAC troops during World War One. In 1988-89 she and Nicholas Boyack, formed the WWl Oral History Archive and interviewed about 90 veterans. The tapes are now in the Alexander Turnbull Library and the resulting book, In The Shadow of War, was published by Penguin Books in April 1990. Jane is now working again on the biography which she expects to finish by the end of the year.

Downloads

Published

1990-10-01