Leisure & Pleasure - Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960

Explores an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history: the modern body at leisure. It begins by tracing the only New Zealand tour of Eugen Sandow, the most famous strongman of his age.

About the author

Caroline Daley is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. She is the coeditor of the New Zealand Journal of History and a past editor of the Women's Studies Journal. She is the author of Girls and Women, Men and Boys, Suffrage and Beyond, and The Gendered Kiwi.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Daley
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2003
• EAN: 9781869402914
• ISBN: 978-1-86940-291-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 220 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries