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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Māori women"”.
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Māori women and gambling: Every day is a war day!
… pokie machines and internet gambling for Māori women and their families in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty region of Aotearoa (New Zealand). It set out to discover what culturally appropriate services were available and the extent to which Māori women gamblers were utilising them. The …
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An exploration of the maternity experiences of wāhine Māori in their encounters with midwife Lead Maternity Carers
… was to explore the maternity experiences of Māori women to understand the optimal conditions needed to provide women-centred relationships with midwife Lead Maternity Carers (LMC). The research focussed on the pregnancies, birth and motherhood experiences of Māori women and their …
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Tū te turuturu nō Hine-te-iwaiwa: Mana wahine geographies of birth in Aotearoa New Zealand
… and spatial experiences of maternity for Māori women. It reveals how colonial and patriarchal discourses are embedded and embodied in the spaces of childbirth in Aotearoa New Zealand. I use a mana wahine (Māori women’s) framework to critique discourses that continue to marginalise and …
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When Pākehā Feminism Met the Movement for Māori Sovereignty, 1975–1990
… Pākehā (settler/New Zealand European) and Māori (Indigenous) women around the Māori sovereignty movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. It focuses on the febrile 1980s, a period marked by the Māori Renaissance (an enduring era of Indigenous revitalisation), nationwide anti-racist protest, and …
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Te karanga tūturu o maieke: Ngāti Kuri women’s taiao geographies
… identities and sense of belonging of Māori women of within the Ngāti Kuri iwi (tribe) and te taiao (the natural world, environment, nature, country) in Te Hiku o te Ika, Far North, Aotearoa New Zealand. It shows how Ngāti Kuri women and te taiao are embedded in - yet also resist - …
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Papatuanuku's Progeny: Foremothers of Maori Women's Poetry Written in English
… and archive the lives and poetry of the first Māori women poets who published in English. These seven foremothers of poetry, Papatūānuku’s Progeny, are taonga (treasures) and emerged from the late 1970s. They are Vernice Wineera (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Raukawa), Evelyn Rosella Patuawa …
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Mouri Tu, Mouri Moko, Mouri Ora! Moko as a wellbeing strategy
… marginalised or vulnerable population – namely, Māori women who have contracted the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). I argue that traditional knowledge and healing practices are central to Māori getting well and keeping well, and that the use of cultural frameworks and practices have potentially …
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The Story Weavers: Collective Counter-Story Sharing and Māori women’s experiences with Crown education, healthcare, and criminal justice systems
This thesis asks what Māori women’s stories tell about the ways in which harm is perpetuated through the state-run healthcare, education, and criminal justice systems. By engaging with multiple forms of storytelling ranging from pūrākau to personal narratives this study centres those stories often …
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Love Letter : A study of South Asian Women, and their relationships with Māori and other racialised Women in Aotearoa
… project records the experiences of South Asian women in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and what those experiences reveal about the possibilities and limits of solidarity with Māori and other racialised women under conditions of settler colonialism and white supremacy. This work is a response to my own …
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A Mana Wahine inquiry into indigenous governance
… investigates the question “How can indigenous women reinvigorate their role in tribal governance structures when many such structures continue to reinforce gendered colonial constructs within which women are marginalised?” It is noted that contemporary tribal governance structures are often …
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Tino rangatiratanga in health policies and practises
… in health policy and practises. A kaupapa Māori analysis of the 1996 National Cervical Screening Programme’s Policy document was at the core of the policy investigation. The analysis involved developing a kaupapa Māori analysing framework and then analysing the 1996 National Cervical …
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What is the prevalence of intimate partner violence disclosed during routine screening in a large general practice in provincial New Zealand?
… provision of intervention services such as women’s refuge or the police. This research aimed to explore the prevalence of IPV disclosure during routine screening in a large general practice in provincial New Zealand (NZ). A statistical analysis was applied to four and a half years’ of …
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A Mother’s Hope: Pacific Teenage Pregnancy in New Zealand
… (births, terminations and miscarriages of women <20 years) is a topic widely publicised over the decades. In the literature teenage pregnancy is associated with belonging to a minority population, being a solo parent, economic deprivation, unemployment and lack of education. In the …