Teenagers is a groundbreaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through the diaries and letters, photographs and drawings that teenagers left behind, we meet New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, the male ‘mashers’ of the 1880s and the female ‘flappers’ of the 1910s and ’20s, schoolgirls and rock’n’rollers, larrikins and louts. By taking us inside the lives of young New Zealanders, the book illuminates from a new angle large-scale changes in our society.

Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand

Brickell, Chris

Teen & Young Adult

Auckland University Press

<div>A brand new edition of the bestselling sociology textbook, written by New Zealand's leading sociologists for New Zealand students. The book introduces sociological concepts and methods before investigating key areas of sociology (class, race, gender, family life, health, death, work, the city, populations, technology, religion, leisure and crime) through the New Zealand experience. The book includes many useful pedagogical features, including: key word definitions and push text in the margins; key themes highlighted; study questions; engaging full colour photography; and case studies written by working sociologists. The 4th edition has been revised and rewritten throughout by a renewed author team. Key changes include: data, examples and case studies completely updated; chapters re-ordered and a new chapter on death added to reflect requests from departments using the book as a teaching text; and more emphasis on tikanga and kaupapa Maori. Also included is a refreshed photograph selection with a local focus. Exploring Society is an engaging, comprehensive and up to date introduction for New Zealand sociology students.</div>

Exploring Society: Sociology for New Zealand Students, 4th Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

McLennan, Gregor

Matthewman, Steve

Spoonley, Paul

McManus, Ruth

Social Sciences

A landmark publication, this first-ever New Zealand gay male history combines lively and engaging scholarship with a remarkable collection of mages.  Chris Brickell tells the evolving story of New Zealand's gay men through the lives of Clerks, laborers, shop assistants, soldiers, actors, miners and writers of all classes, and he shows that our erotic past was vibrant, complex and often surprising.

Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand

LGBTQ+ Books

Godwit Pub.

New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems, and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries--Frank Sargeson, Eric McCormick, Charles Brasch, and Bill Pearson. A Way of Love, published in 1959, was the first gay novel written by a New Zealander, and some of his other seven novels (including Fires in the Distance and The Call Home) contain queer characters. Between 1920 and 1963, Courage confided his innermost thoughts to a private diary. He wrote about leaving New Zealand, the men he met in London's streets, and forging friendships in the literary scene. He was an evocative chronicler of landscapes and indoor settings: life on long ocean voyages, air raid shelters during the war, and the psychiatrist's clinic at a time when society was deeply ambivalent about homosexuality. Courage recorded his personal triumphs and struggles with an engaging honesty, a lively intelligence, and a whimsical sense of humour.

James Courage Diaries

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Otago University Press

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