Contact details
Email barbara.brookes@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
1982: PhD (Modern History) Bryn Mawr College
1978: MA (Modern History) Bryn Mawr College
1976: BA(Hons) (History) University of Otago
Research interests
Professor Brookes' research interests include gender relations in New Zealand, and the history of health and disease in New Zealand and Britain. Most recently she has published A History of New Zealand Women (Bridget Williams Books, 2016), a survey history from the first waka to 2016. Barbara's first monograph on Abortion in England, 1900-1967, first published in 1988, was republished by Routledge in 2013 in their Women's History series. Barbara has co-edited (with Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant) two collections of essays on New Zealand women's history, and has edited six other volumes, most recently (together with Tracy Penny Light and Wendy Mitchinson) an international collection entitled Bodily Subjects: Histories of Gender and Health (McGill-Queens University Press, 2014).
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.
Editorial responsibilities
Professor Brookes is currently co-editor, with Professor Angela Wanhalla, of the New Zealand Journal of History and is on the Editorial Boards of:
- Women's History Review
- Health and History
- Journal of Family History