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20. Margaret Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1982); Ruth Watts, Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007).

21. Maresi Nerad, The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California Berkley (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999); Sarah Stage and Virginia Vincenti, eds., Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997); Ellen Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

22. Stage and Vincenti, Rethinking Home Economics.

23. Jenny Collins, ‘Locating Women in Educational Leadership: An Historical Perspective’, Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice 23, no. 2 (2008): 48–59; Jenny Collins, ‘Creating Women’s Work in the Academy and Beyond: Carnegie Connections, 1923–1942’, History of Education 38, no. 6 (2009): 791–808.

24. Stage and Vincenti, Rethinking Home Economics;Jenny Collins, ‘Glorified Housekeepers or Pioneering Professionals? The Professional Lives of Home Science Graduates from the University of New Zealand, 1911–1935’, History of Education Review 37, no. 2 (2008): 40–51.

25. Ann Mari May, The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008).

26. Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffman Davis, The Art and Science of Portraiture (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1997).

27. Ibid., 13.

28. Across the institutional history of the University of New Zealand, all of its chancellors and vice chancellors were white, middle-class males. See, for example, the portraits and photographs that are reproduced in Parton, University of New Zealand, or indeed in any institutional history of this university.

29. Martin, ‘Hope of Biography’.

30. Barbara Finkelstein, ‘Revealing Human Agency: The Uses of Biography in the Study of Educational History’, in Writing Educational Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research, ed. Craig Kridel (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).

31. Jane Ribbens, ‘Fact or Fictions? Aspects of the Use of Autobiographical Writing in Undergraduate Sociology’, Sociology 27 (1993): 83.