{"product_id":"women-mean-business-catherine-bishop-9781988531762","title":"Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Bishop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988531764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988531762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Otago University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.70w x 1.20d","brand":"Catherine Bishop","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149455847679,"sku":"9781988531762","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e8f40b5-8992-4567-afd9-44349807b419.jpg?v=1688456814","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-mean-business-catherine-bishop-9781988531762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}