{"product_id":"women-mean-business","title":"Women Mean Business","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Kaitaia in Northland to Oban on Stewart Island, New Zealand’s nineteenth-century towns were full of entrepreneurial women. Contrary to what we might expect, colonial women were not only wives and mothers or domestic servants. A surprising number ran their own businesses, supporting themselves and their families, sometimes in productive partnership with husbands, but in other cases compensating for a spouse’s incompetence, intemperance, absence – or all three. The pages of this book overflow with the stories of hard-working milliners and dressmakers, teachers, boarding-house keepers and laundresses, colourful publicans, brothelkeepers and travelling performers, along with the odd taxidermist, bootmaker and butcher – and Australasia’s first woman chemist. Then, as now, there was no ‘typical’ businesswoman. They were middle and working class; young and old; Māori and Pākehā; single, married, widowed and sometimes bigamists. Their businesses could be wild successes or dismal failures, lasting just a few months or a lifetime. In this fascinating and entertaining book, award-winning historian Dr Catherine Bishop showcases many of the individual businesswomen whose efforts, collectively, contributed so much to the making of urban life in New Zealand. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher -- Otago University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat -- Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anec•dote","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55078378996015,"sku":"NB0102","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/0579\/6143\/files\/womenbusiness.jpg?v=1773281374","url":"https:\/\/anec-dote.co.nz\/products\/women-mean-business","provider":"Anec•dote","version":"1.0","type":"link"}