About the Author

Jenny Coleman is a senior lecturer and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. She was head of the Womens Studies Programme at Massey 200011 and coordinating editor of the Womens Studies Journal 200409. She has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century New Zealand womens history topics, and published Mad or Bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock 18591943 through Otago University Press in 2010.