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CABINET THIRTEEN: WOMEN’S HEALTH[Trotula], Medieval Woman’s Guide to Health: The First English Gynecological Handbook. Translated by Beryl Rowland. London: Croom Helm, 1981. Medical Storage WZ490 T858Image of Florence Nightingale, c. 1857 from Gillian Gill’s Nightingales: The Story of Florence Nightingale and Her Remarkable Family. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. Central DA565 N5 GF476Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. Health Sciences Historical Collection WYA N687David M. Kennedy, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1970. Medical Storage WZ100 S325

CABINET FOURTEEN: PIRATESThe Histories of Polybius. Vol. I. London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Central PA4391 A2 1889Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates. Edited by Manuel Schonhorn. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1972. Central G535 DP55Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Central D27 DS74

CABINET FIFTEEN: ANARCHISTS AND REBELSRobert Southey, Joan of Arc. Volume one. Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs for T.N. Longman and Joseph Cottle, 1798. De Beer Eb 1798 SCatherine Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co., 2004. Central E444 T82 CM19Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917. Special Collection HX833 G65 1917Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed. St. Albans, Hertfordshire: Panther, 1975. Science Fiction PS3562 E42 D57 1975

CABINET SIXTEEN: PRINTERSJohn Fisher, Assertionis Lutheranae Confvtatio Ivxta Vervm ac Etiam Originalem Archetypum. [Paris: Charlotte] Guillard, 1545. Shoults Fb 1545 FSarah M. Smith, Minutes: Dance Steps for the Beleagured: Being an Enquiry into the Nature, Order and Methodology of the Professional Aggregation: Containing Triangulations and Refutations of Dynamic Manipulatives by Two Persons of Letters, Hitherto Referred to as Dr. Flansbaum-Pierce and Dr. Francis J. Ascetabon. [Lebanon, New Hampshire]: Olfactory Press, 2012. Special Collections N7433.4 S65 M56 2012___, Posers International. [Lebanon, New Hampshire]: Olfactory Press, 2012. Special Collections N7433.4 S65 M56 2012Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke, Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and Familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. London: Printed by E.[lizabeth] P.[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, 1633. De Beer Eb 1633 G

CABINET SEVENTEEN: ACTIVISTS Reproduced portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, c. 1797. National Portrait Gallery, onlineMary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Third edition. Volume one. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1796. De Beer Eb 1796 WRichard Dellamora, Radclyffe Hall: A Life in Writing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Central PR6015 A33 Z5 DB27Dora Russell, Hypatia, or Woman and Knowledge. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. Storage Bliss QW RReproduction of photograph of Dora Russell with husband, Bertrand, c. 1930. Online

CABINET EIGHTEEN: NEW ZEALAND WOMENRobin Hyde, The Desolate Star and Other Poems. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, [1929]. Brasch PR9640 H9 D4Robin Hyde, Journalese. Auckland: The National Printing Company, 1934. Brasch PR 9640 H9 J6Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1957. Special Collections PR9641 F7 O9 1957Janet Frame with plaster being done by Anthony Stones, 1998. Reg Graham Photographer. Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, P2013-015/2-019Katherine Mansfield, Poems. London: Constable & Co., 1923. Brasch PR9640 M35 P6Heather Curnow, Katherine Mansfield. Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1968. Brasch PR9640 M35 Z5 CZ13Southern People. A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography. Ed. by Jane Thomson. [Dunedin]: Longacre Press in association with the Dunedin City Council, 1998. Private Collection. Barbara Brookes, A History of New Zealand Women. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2016. Private Collection Charlotte MacDonald, The Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma te Kaupapa. Edited with Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991. Private CollectionMagda Wallscott, c.1994-97. Reg Graham Photographer. Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, P1997-011-90. Kind permission from Te Runanga Ōtākou Ngāi Tahu Yvette Williams training for long jump, St Clair, c.1948-1953. E.A. Phillips photograph, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, P1968-001/4-003.

VITRINES:Vitrine One: FeminismVitrine Two: Motherhood and ChildrenVitrine Three: Biographies on WomenVitrine Four: The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern

Acknowledgements: Emer Lyons, Dr Grace Moore, Associate Professor Jacqui Leckie, John Hughes, Anne Parkinson and Te Runanga Ōtākou Ngāi Tahu, and women everywhere.

EXHIBITION

Special Collections I De Beer Gallery1st Floor I Central LibraryUniversity of OtagoHours: 8:30am to 5pmMonday to Friday

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

WOMENA CELEBRATION OF

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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’.

Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937

CABINET ONE: INTRODUCTION[Pierre Petit], De Amazonibus Dissertatio,… Second edition. [Amsterdam]: Apud Johannem Wolters et Ysbrandum Haring, 1687. Shoults Lb 1687 PMurasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Translated by Arthur Waley. Volume one. London: Allen and Unwin, 1935. Brasch PL788.4 G4 A29F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1948. Special Collections PS3511 I9 T48 1948Heroines: Remarkable and Inspiring Women. An Illustrated Anthology of Essays by Women Writers. [Scotland]: Saraband, 1995. Robertson 305.40922 HERQueen Victoria, Letter to the Duke of Wellington. Buckingham Palace: June 15, 1849. De Beer Manuscripts MS 11The New Poetry: An Anthology. Edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. Special Collections PR1225 M667 1919Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Legal Tender for Ten DollarsEmmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914. Storage HQ1595 P34 A3 1914

CABINET TWO: THE ANCIENTSThe Works of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse...to which are added the Odes, Fragments, and Epigrams of Sappho. London: Printed for John Watts, 1735. De Beer Eb 1735 AThe Works of Cornelius Tacitus. Vol. II. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. De Beer Ec 1793 TItinerarium Egeriae. [Turnout, Antwerp]: Brepols, 1958. Special Collections BR167 I7 IW4

CABINET THREE: TRAVELLERS IMemoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope. London: Henry Colburn, 1845. Special Collections DA536 S8 A3 1845Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters …Written, During her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters. Vol. II. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763. Shoults Eb 1763 MIda Pfeiffer, Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy. London: Ingram, Cooke, 1852. Special Collections DS48 P52 1852Mrs Brassey, Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. D972 B82 1880

CABINET FOUR: TRAVELLERS IIGertrude Lowthian Bell, Syria: The Desert and the Sown. London: Heinemann, 1919. Brasch DS94 BD78 1908Isabella Lucy Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1881. Special Collections F782 R6 B59 1881Freya Stark, Seen in the Hadhramaut. London: J. Murray, 1938. Brasch DS247 H3 SS78Alexandra David-Neel, My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City. New York: Harper & Bros., 1927. Special Collections DS785 D25 1927

CABINET FIVE: RULERSJohn Dryden, All for Love, or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1740. De Beer Eb 1740 DBernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra: A History. London: Constable and Co., 1927. Brasch PR5363 C3 1927Henri de Valois, Henrici Valesii Militis, Domini d’Orce, Consiliarii, et Historiographi Regii,… [Amsterdam]: Apud Salomonem Schouten, 1740. Shoults Lc 1740 VFrancis Osborne, Historical Memoires on the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James. London: Printed by J. Grismond and are to be sold by T. Robinson, 1658. De Beer Eb 1658 O

CABINET SIX: THE SCIENTIFIC WORLDEve Curie, Madame Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean. London: William Heinemann, 1938. Medical Storage WZ100 C975Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science. London: John Murray, 1869. Special Collections QH273 S6 1869Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal. Volume XIII. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. McGlashan Collection AP4 A4 v.13

CABINET SEVEN: MATHEMATICIANSVoltaire, Philosophical, Literary, and Historical Pieces…Translated by W.S. Kenrick. Second edition. London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1780. De Beer Eb 1780 VJules Maurice Gaspard, ‘Fictional Portrait of Hypatia’, Wikipedia (online)Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume 4. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778. De Beer Ec 1776 GChristopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice, Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2018. QA29 L72 H65 2018

CABINET EIGHT: AUTHORS AND POETS[Aphra Behn], All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs Behn. London: Printed by J.D. for M. Wellington, 1718. De Beer Eb 1718 BKatherine Philips, Poems. London: Printer by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1669. De Beer Ec 1669 PAnne, Countess of Winchilsea, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions. London: Printed for J.B., 1713. De Beer Eb 1713 W

CABINET NINE: NOVELISTSAnn Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. De Beer Eb 1794 R[Fanny Burney], Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth. London: Printed for T. Payne, and T. Cadell Jun, and W. Davies, 1796. De Beer Eb 1796 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London: John Cassell, 1852. De Beer Eb 1852 S[Elizabeth Gaskell], North and South. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. Special Collections PR4710 N6 1855

CABINET TEN: MODERNSDorothy M. Richardson, Interim. London: Duckworth & Co, 1919. Special Collections PR6035 I34 I5 1919Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Special Collections PR6045 O72 M7 1925Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems. London: Penguin Books, 1969. Brasch PG3476 A324 A25 1969H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), The Walls Do Not Fall. London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Brasch PS3507 O726 W3 Marianne Moore, The Arctic Ox. London: Faber and Faber, 1964. Brasch PS3525 O5616 A7

CABINET ELEVEN: ARTISTS IMarianne Colston, ‘Marignac, near St. Beat Haute, Garonne, October 4, 1821’, Plate 47, Plates Illustrative of a Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy. London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. Special Collections D919 CP 95A.E Housman, A Shropshire Lad. London: Folio Society, 2014. Special Collections PR4809 H15 A7 2014

CABINET TWELVE: ARTISTS IIVirginia Woolf, A Haunted House and Other Stories. London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. Special Collections PR6045 O72 H3 1944Helen Kapp, Toying with a Fancy. London: Robert Hale Limited, [1948]. Brasch NC1479.5 K35 A4 1948The Arts Council, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Frances Hodgkins 1868-1947. London, The Arts Council, 1952. Brasch ND1108 H62 A4 1952

I T E M S ON DI S PL AY

A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history.

As you will find in this exhibition, The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame.

You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides.

Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light. Please enjoy the exhibition.

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES

A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN HISTORY