Barbara Brookes

Contact Details

Room 2C13, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel 64 3 479 8608
Email barbara.brookes@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Office Hours: 3 - 5 Monday
Teaching: HIST 220, HIST 306, HIST 406, ENGL 404.

Academic Qualifications

1976: BA (Hons) (History) University of Otago
1978: MA (Modern History) Bryn Mawr College
1982: PhD (Modern History) Bryn Mawr College

Research Interests

Professor Brookes' research interests include gender relations in New Zealand, and the history of health and disease in New Zealand and Britain. She has written a book on abortion in twentieth century England, co-edited two collections of essays on New Zealand women's history, and has edited four other volumes, most recently (together with Annabel Cooper and Robin Law) Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939. She is currently writing a general history of women in New Zealand.

Select Publications

• Alison Holland and Barbara Brookes, eds. Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
• 'An Illness in the Family: Dr Maude Abbott and her sister, Alice Abbott,' Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, vol. 28; pp. 171-190 (2011)
• 'Shame and its HIstories in the Twentieth Century,' Journal of New Zealand Studies, Special Issue, pp. 37-54. (2010).
• 'The Making of a Controversy', in The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1987-88, Joanna Manning (ed.), Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2009.
• With Catherine Smith, 'Technology and Gender: barbers and Hairdressers in New Zealand, 1900-1970,' forthcoming in History and Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 385-406.
• 'A Corresponding Community: Dr Agnes Bennett and her friends from the Edinburgh Medical College for Women of the 1890s', Medical History, vol. 52, (2008) pp. 237-256.
• 'Gender, Work and Fears of a 'Hybrid Race' in 1920s New Zealand', Gender and History, vol. 19. No. 3 (2007).
• 'Health Education Film and the Maori: tuberculosis and the Maori People of the Wairoa District (1952)', Health and History, vol. 8, no. 2 (2006): pp. 45-68.
• '”The Glands of Destiny:” Hygiene, Hormones and British Women Doctors in the First Half of the Twentieth Century', Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, vol. 23: pp. 49-68 (2006)
• With Robin Law and Annabel Cooper. Sites of Gender. Women, Men & Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939. Auckland, Auckland University Press 2003. 448pp.
• With Dr Dorothy Page. Communities of Women. Historical Perspectives. Dunedin, Otago University Press 2002. 229 pp.
• 'With Jane Thomson. 'Unfortunate Folk'. Essays on Mental Health Treatment 1863 - 1992. Dunedin, Otago University Press 2001. 302 pp.
• At Home in New Zealand: History, Houses and People. Bridget Williams Books 2000. 256 pp.
• With C. J. Macdonald, M Tennant. Women in History, Vol 2. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 1992. 321 pp.
• Abortion in England, 1900 - 1967. The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. London, Croom Helm 1988. 196 pp.
• With C. J. Macdonald, M Tennant. Women in History. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 1986. 202 pp.
• With Louise Shaw. 'Constructing Homes: Gender and Advertising in Home and Building'. New Zealand Journal of History, vol 33. pp 200 - 220 (1999).
• With M. Tennant. 'Making Girls Modern: Menstruation in New Zealand, 1880 - 1970'. Women's History Review vol 7. pp 565 - 81 (1998)
• 'Nostalgia for "innocent homely pleasures". The 1964 New Zealand Controversy over "Washday at the Pa"'. Gender and History, Vol 9. pp 242 - 61 (1997).
  

Areas of Research Supervision

Professor Brookes is interested in hearing from students who are interested in research in medical history, women's history, or aspects of New Zealand's cultural history.

Other Interests

New Zealand Historical Association, New Zealand Women's Studies Association, New Zealand's cultural history.

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