Barbara Brookes

Biography

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

Research Interest

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).