Communities of women :  historical perspectives / 
edited by Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page. 
 - 229 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-222) and index. 
<br/><br/>Community, life cycle, diaspora : a daughter's view / Anna Davin -- The communities of a thirteenth-century holy woman, Ida of Nivelles / Jennifer Carpenter -- Herrad of Hohenbourg's Hortus deliciarum and the creation of images for medieval nuns / Judith Collard -- Native American women's use of Connecticut's colonial courts / Katharine Hermes & Alexandra Maravel -- Women's peculiar mission : ladies' benevolence in the New Zealand setting / Margaret Tennant -- Sustaining the vision from Adelaide to Temuka : a Josephite community is founded in New Zealand in 1883 / Ann Gilroy -- Anything but a roll in the hay : romance in rural communities in Federation Australia / Kate Hunter -- Dissecting a community : women medical students at the University of Otago, 1891-1924 / Dorothy Page -- Women working for women at work : women factory inspectors in Britain, 1893-1921 / Barbara Harrison -- Gender and the politics of keeping left : Wellington labour women and their community, 1912-1949 / Melanie Nolan -- Political communities of women / Marilyn Lake. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1877276316 9781877276316 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Social conditions--20th century.<br/>Women--History--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.42