Pat Rosier Explained

Pat Rosier
Birth Name:	Patricia Jean Rosier
Birth Date:	1942 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Auckland, New Zealand
Death Place:	Paekākāriki, New Zealand
Occupation:	Writer, feminist activist
Alma Mater:	University of Auckland
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Patricia Jean Rosier (21 January 1942 – 12 June 2014) was a New Zealand writer, editor and feminist activist. Born and educated in Auckland into a working-class family, after marriage and raising two children she came out as a lesbian in the 1980s^[1] and went on to play a leading role in the second wave of New Zealand's Women's Movement,^[2] including editing Broadsheet for six years.^{[3] [4]} In her later years she lived with Prue Hyman in Paekākāriki, north of Wellington.

Works

Non-fiction

• Broadsheet Editor (1986 to 1992)
• Broadsheet, twenty years of Broadsheet Magazine selected and introduced by Pat Rosier. 1992. New Women's Press, Auckland, NZ.
• Get used to it!: children of gay and lesbian parents Pat Rosier and Myra Hauschild, Canterbury University Press, 1999.
• Women's studies: conference papers 1982 Hilary Lapsley, Pat Rosier, Claire-Louise McCurdy and Candis Craven, 1982.
• The 14th Conference of the Women's Studies Association (N.Z.) : "Raranga wahine" Editing by Pat Rosier. 1988.
• Workwise: a guide to managing workplace relationships Pat Rosier, Canterbury University Press, 2001.
• No body's perfect: a self-help book for women who have problems with food Jasbindar Singh and Pat Rosier New Women's Press, 1989.
• No body's perfect: dealing with food problems Jasbindar Singh and Pat Rosier, Attic Press, 1990.
• Lesbians in front, up front, out front Pat Rosier, book chapter in Heading nowhere in a navy blue suit: and other tales from the feminist revolution Susan Jane Kedgley and Mary Varnham Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1993.
• Women's studies tutor kit Candis Crave, Margot Roth, Claire-Louise McCurdy and Pat Rosier, Auckland Workers' Educational Association, Women's Studies Sub-Committee, 1983.
• Women and Education Pat Rosier chapter in Perspectives on women today : lecture series, Term I, 1986.

Fiction

• Poppy's return Pat Rosier, Spinifex, 2004
• Poppy's progress Pat Rosier, Spinifex, 2002
• Stones gathered together : a collection of stories and thoughts Pat Rosier, Smashwords, 2012.
• Take it easy Pat Rosier, Smashwords, 2008.
• Where the heArt is Pat Rosier, Smashwords, 2013.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pat Rosier — Shalom | Kapiti Independent . 16 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141014065602/http://robin.hosts.net.nz/~admin219/pat-rosier-shalom/ . 14 October 2014 . dead .
2. Web site: Re-writing 2nd Wave Women's Movement: Pat Rosier – h/T Hand Mirror. 19 July 2014.
3. University of Canterbury . BA(Hons) . Race relations in New Zealand Through an Analysis of Broadsheet Magazine 1972-1989. 10.26021/4453. 2013. Hayes. Kimberley.
4. Du Plessis . Rosemary . Rosemary Du Plessis . 2008 . What happened to the 'f' word? Feminisms and Public Sociologies .