New Women's Press Explained

New Women's Press (NWP) was an independent book publisher founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 1982. New Women's Press's mandate was to publish books "by, for, and about women."[1] Wendy Harrex ran New Women's Press for 11 years.[2] Over that time, NWP published over 70[3] titles of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, as well as an annual diary, Herstory, that highlighted groups of New Zealand women. The Haeata Collective of Māori women artists was originally founded to produce a Herstory edition for NWP.[4] NWP also published the first anthology of New Zealand women's fiction, which was edited by Cathie Dunsford.[5]

The Broadsheet feminist magazine and NWP celebrated a joint anniversary (Broadsheets twentieth and NWP's tenth) on 19 September 1992, with a Suffrage Day event in Auckland, attended by more than 200 women. The event was part of the Listener Women's Book Festival, and was also the launch of Been Around for Quite a While. Speakers included Pat Rosier, Sandra Coney, Wendy Harrex, Stephanie Johnson and Sheridan Keith.

In an article surveying the state of women's publishing in New Zealand, Laurel Bergmann describes New Women's Press as "an important part of the process of legitimation of women fiction writers", particularly due to the New Women's Fiction anthology series that provided opportunities to new writers to publish alongside established voices.[6] [7] Janet Wilson has noted that this anthology series "confirmed the development of a new market and readership" for writing by women.[8]

List of Publications

!Title!Author/Editors!Series!Year of Publication!ISBN
New Women's Calendar 19821981
Healthy Women: A self-help guide to good healthSarah Calvert19820 908652 00 3
New Zealand Herstory 1983Hamilton Women's CollectiveHerstory19820 908652 01 1
Born Beneath a Rainbow: Memories of a country childhoodJudith Ellmers19830 908652 02 X
Self Defence for WomenSue Lytollis19830 908652 03 8
New Zealand Herstory 1984Herstory1983
Nest in a Falling TreeJoy CowleyNew Women's Classics19840 908652 08 9
The Love ContractMargaret SutherlandNew Women's Classics19840 908652 10 0
Dragon RampantRobin HydeNew Women's Classics19840 908652 07 0
Deep BreathingLora Mountjoy19840 908652 13 5
Haeata Herstory 1985Haeata Herstory CollectiveHerstory19840 908652 12 7
Women's Studies: A New Zealand HandbookCandis Craven, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Pat Rosier & Margot Roth19850 908652 15 1
Recipes My Mother Taught MeReinza Goldwater19850 908652 14 3
Herstory 1986Rural Women's NetworkHerstory19850 908652 16 X
Save the MidwifeJoan Donley19860 908652 05 4
Self Defence for WomenSue LyttolisReprint19860 908652 03 8
New Women's FictionEd. Cathie DunsfordNew Women's Fiction19860 908652 18 6
The Daughter-in-Law and Other StoriesFrances Cherry19860 908652 19 4
The Old-Time MaoriMakeretiNew Women's Classics19860 908652 11 9
Nor the Years CondemnRobin HydeNew Women's Classics19860 908652 09 7
Peace is More than the AbsenceGil Hanly, Sonja Davies19860 908652 23 5
Herstory 1987Herstory '87 CollectiveHerstory19860 908652 21 6
Candles and Canvas: A Danish Family in New ZealandPoula Langkilde-Christie19870 908652 22 4
Twenty-Eight Days in KiribatiClaudia Pond Eyley and Robin White19870 908652 24 0
Feet Across AmericaAnne Macfarlane19870 908652 25 9
2 Deaths in 1 NightJanet Charman19870 908652 27 5
Poorman Oranges: Women in community houses in AucklandWensley Willcox 19870 908652 29 1
Herstory 1988: Women & BooksNew Women's PressHerstory19870 908652 28 3
New Women's Fiction 2Ed. Aorewa McLeodNew Women's Fiction19880 908652 30 5
The Glass Whittler: Short StoriesStephanie Johnson19880 908652 33 X
Tai: Heart of a TreeMomoe Malietoa von Reiche19880 908652 36 4
Guts, Tears & Glory: Champion New Zealand Sportswomen talk to Trish StratfordTrish Stratford19880 908652 31 3
Herstory 1989 (on women in sport)Lisa Hayes & Clare SimpsonHerstory19880 908652 34 8
Healing Your ChildFrances & Louise Darragh19890 908652 26 7
Premenstrual SyndromeHelen DuckworthNew Women's Handbook Series19890 908652 44 5
No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who haveproblems with foodJasbindar Singh & Pat RosierNew Women's Handbook Series19890 908652 46 1
Wednesday’s ChildrenRobin HydeNew Women's Classics19890 908652 37 2
New Women's Fiction 3Mary Paul & Marion RaeNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 43 7
The Wintering HouseAlexandria ChalmersNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 40 2
One Plain, One Purl: Stories of a GirlhoodCarin SvenssonNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 41 0
TahuriNgahuia Te AwekotukuNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 42 9
Dancing with StringsFrances CherryNew Women's Fiction19890 908652 32 1
To Be So OldGwen Skinner19900 908652 47 X
The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian writing from Australia & NZCathie Dunsford & Susan Hawthorne19900 908652 51 8
Home Away from HomeManying Ip19900 908652 45 3
Victoria in MaorilandMargaret BrayNew Women's Fiction19900 908652 50 X
Self Defence for WomenSue LytollisReprint19900 908652 03 8
Premenstrual SyndromeHelen DuckworthAttic Press Edition19900 946211 67 1
No Body’s Perfect: A self-help book for women who haveproblems with foodJasbindar Singh & Pat RosierAttic Press Edition 19901 85594 007 8
Women in Mid-LifeLeteia PotterNew Women'sHandbook Series19910 908652 53 4
Parker & Hulme

A Lesbian View

Julie Glamuzina & Alison Laurie19910 908652 54 2
Sailing Away: New Zealand Women in Sailing 1920-1990Jann Iorns19910 908652 57 7
Mana Wahine Maori: Selected writings on Maori women's art, culture and politicsNgahuia Te Awekotuku19910 908652 63 1
New Women's Fiction 4Wendy Harrex & Lynsey FerrariNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 64 8
The Widowhood of Jacki BatesFrances CherryNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 61 5
Shallow are the Smiles at the SupermarketSheridan KeithNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 58 5
An Unusually Clumsy LoverCarin SvenssonNew Women's Fiction19910 908652 60 7
Animal PassionsSheridan Keith19920 908652 66 6
Crimes of NeglectStephanie Johnson19920 908652 65 8
The Woman Question: Writings by the women who won the voteSelected by Margaret Lovell-Smith 19920 908652 67 4
Broadsheet: Twenty Years of Broadsheet MagazineEd. Pat Rosier19920 908652 68 2
Invisible Families: A resource for Family and friends of lesbian or gay daughters and sons Terry Stewart19930 908652 69 0
Healing Your ChildFrances & Louise Darraghreprint19940 908652 26 7

Notes and References

  1. Taylor . Renee . October 1982 . Feminists Impress . Broadsheet . 103 . 10-11 . Auckland University Library.
  2. Web site: Smith . Charmian . 2009-01-17 . From book lovers to book covers . 2022-06-17 . Otago Daily Times Online News . en.
  3. Summer 1992 . The twentieth birthday of Broadsheet and the tenth of New Women's Press . Broadsheet Magazine . 196 . 33.
  4. Web site: Haeata NZHistory, New Zealand history online . 2022-06-17 . nzhistory.govt.nz.
  5. Web site: 2022-06-09 . Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s . 2022-06-17 . Newsroom . en-AU.
  6. Bergmann . Laurel . January 1994 . Where to from here?: contemporary New Zealand women's fiction . Hecate . 20 . 2 . 217-218 . Informit.
  7. Wilson . Janet . 2019-07-10 . Contemporary Women's Writing in New Zealand . Kunapipi . 16 . 1 . 0106-5734.
  8. Encyclopedia: Wilson . Janet . Robinson . Roger . Wattie . Nelson . The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature . Anthologies of women's writing . 24 June 2022 . 2006 . . 978-0-1917-3519-6 . 865265749 . 10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001.

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