Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists: The University Of ...

Acknowledgments

This book is a collaborative effort that has its origins in a conversation that was sparked at the annual Australia and New Zealand History of Education Conference. Sharing similar research interests and an abiding commitment to the history of women’s education, we wanted to contest the view that home science was a form of glorified housekeeping. Drawing on Fitzgerald’s extensive work on the history of women professors in New Zealand and Collins’s research on home science graduates and transnational connections, this book is itself a portrait of our academic work and contributions. During the writing of this book, we have been resident in different countries and the archives and libraries we have used have been situated in different countries, as too have been numerous individuals who have assisted us. We would therefore like to record our deep appreciation and thanks to the archivists and librarians at the Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington, New Zealand), National Archives (Auckland, Dunedin, and Wellington, New Zealand), the Hocken Library (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand), Girton College (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Bancroft Library