Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781988531762)

New Zealand's nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and their families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases compensating for a spouse's incompetence, intemperance, or absence. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers, and more. Then, as now, there was no "typical" businesswoman. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few months or a lifetime. In this fascinating and entertaining book, Dr. Catherine Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, collectively, contributed so much to the making of urban life in New Zealand.


Author: Catherine Bishop
ISBN-10: 1988531764
ISBN-13: 9781988531762
Publisher: Otago University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2020
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 1.20d