• All things ethnic : comparing ethnicity in the official statistics of Canada and New Zealand 

  Marshall, Lysandra Ruth (2001)

  This thesis provides an historical comparison of the ethnic questions in the censuses of Canada and New Zealand. The comparison spans six census years, selected to provide the best examples of changes in the respective ...

• Ways of working with families where a parent has a psychiatric disability 

  Nightingale, Kathryn (2001)

  Many people who are clients of adult mental health services are parents of dependent children yet little is known about what happens in clinical practice in relation to either them or their children. The purpose of this ...

• A study on the anthology Za Ahan Jing (T101) centred on its languistic features, authorship and school affiliation 

  Lin, Yueh-Mei (2001)

  The Chinese Agamas currently receive much scholarly attention due to the possibility that they may be the only extant translations of recently found Indic manuscripts. The anthology Za Ahan Jing (Tl0l), dealt with in this ...

• Nuclear free : strategies used by the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement 

  Vostinar, Vera (1993)

  In 1987 New Zealand's nuclear free legislation turned the country towards a more independent foreign and defense policy. It was also a major achievement for the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement. This study examines the ...

• The collective voice, where to now? : two depressions 

  Dunstan, Stephen Allan (1995)

  This research compares the unemployed movements of two depressions, the 1930s and the 1980s and early 1990s. The research focused on Christchurch and Dunedin. The basic research question was whether the unemployed of these ...

• Perpetration of sexual abuse of children 

  Evans, Jennifer Mary (1992)

  This thesis has examined the general topic of child sexual abuse to identify the social characteristics of those who sexually abuse children. Three major perspectives have been identified, the historical perspective, the ...

• Leibniz and the rationality of the infinite 

  Carson, David Peter (2001)

  Part 1 Historically the term 'infinite' has had two apparently contrary meanings. On the one hand, it was taken by metaphysicians like Plotinus to mean that which " ... has never known measure and stands outside number, ...

• Why soldiers rape : an integrative perspective 

  Henry, Nicola Michelle (2000)

  Sexual violence against women represents a horrifying social phenomenon that continues to pervade contemporary war environments. The subject of wartime rape has gained increasing academic prominence since the mass rapes ...

• The Women's Electoral Lobby : a study of political activism 

  Keir, Marie Jane (1977)

  A major concern of the survey undertaken was to explore and describe first the characteristics and motivations of a group of women who were political activists and second to examine the effectiveness of the strategies they ...

• An outline of the development of Chinese and Japanese-style calligraphy in Japan from pre-Edo to modern times 

  Baldwin, Aaron M. (1999)

  This thesis focuses on the development, from pre-Edo to modern times, of Japan's two main traditions of calligraphy- namely wayo (Japanese style) and karayo (Chinese style). Emphasis has been placed on the Edo period, in ...

• Refuge or turmoil? : Somali adolescent refugees in Christchurch schools : intercultural struggle and the practices of exclusion 

  Humpage, Louise (1998)

  Somali refugees have resettled in New Zealand since 1993. Yet, there is a dearth of information about their experience in this country. This thesis moves into uncharted territory by considering the adaptation of Somali ...

• Young & restless : negotiating youthful gender identities in a "postfeminist" era 

  Yeoman, Kate (1999)

  Within contemporary 'western', industrial culture the nature and experience of femininity and masculinity is characterised by tension and contradiction. This thesis looks at how young, subcultural women and men ...

• A pool of anglepoised light : the legacy of colonialism in three Indian novels written in English 

  Rogers, Damien Robert (2000)

  This thesis examines the work of three major Indian novelists belonging to consecutive generations whose responses to the legacy of colonialism emerges from and signals important historical shifts in postcolonial India. ...

• The construction of exotic otherness :representation and colonial politics in the Pacific 

  Pickens, Robyn (1999)

  This thesis works to deconstruct and dismantle the construction and representation of the West and the Pacific, portrayed respectively as Self and Other in a variety of textual mediums, including explorers' accounts, ...

• Stripping men : a comparison of the New Zealand play Ladies Night and the British film The Full Monty as they (re)define maleness in the post-feminist world 

  Parker, George William Rodolph (2000)

  In what appears to be a reversal of conventional gender roles the male characters of the New Zealand play Ladies Night (1987) and the British film The Full Monty (1997) strip for a female audience. The phenomenal ...

• The role of the press in maintaining social ideology 

  Aitken, Timothy Charles (1998)

  The press perform a crucial role in facilitating the social, economic and political spheres which combine to bind society together. This thesis looks at the relationship between the press and ideology. It provides an account ...

• Dretske's representational thesis 

  Moyst, K. S. (1999)

  The aim of this thesis is to defend the negative thesis that it is not the case that all mental facts are facts about indicator functions. That which I am arguing against is Fred Dretske's Representational Thesis. The ...

• The crack of the whip? : party cohesiveness and institutional consensus 

  Hobby, Michael Gerald (1987)

  Although numerous studies of the New Zealand Parliament have characterised MPs and their parties as exhibiting a high degree of discipline and cohesiveness in their legislative behaviour, none have provided more than a ...

• Personality in early New Zealand history, an estimate of the influence of Cook, Marsden and Wakefield 

  Prebble, Dorothy May Phyllis (1933)

• Three New Zealand cause groups : a look at motivation 

  Williams, Christine Mary (1976)

  This study began as a simple inquiry into why a certain type of pressure group, the cause group, as opposed to the economic interest group, existed in the New Zealand political system. It was prompted by the writer's ...

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