Publication Cover
Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 23, 2016 - Issue 4
2,752
Views
13
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Materials, skills and gender identities: men, women and home improvement practices in New Zealand

Pages 572-588 | Received 31 Jul 2014, Accepted 18 Dec 2014, Published online: 29 Apr 2015

References

  • Bell, Claudia. 1996. Inventing New Zealand. Auckland: Penguin Books.
  • Blunt, Alison. 2005a. “Cultural Geography: Cultural Geographies of Home.” Progress in Human Geography 29 (4): 505–515. doi:10.1191/0309132505ph564pr.
  • Blunt, Alison. 2005b. Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Blunt, Alison, and Robyn Dowling. 2006. Home. London: Routledge.
  • Bridges, John, and David Downs. 2000. No 8 wire: The Best of Kiwi Ingenuity. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett.
  • Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge.
  • Cooper, Annabel. 2008. “Poor Men in the Land of Promises.” Australian Historical Studies 39 (2): 245–261. doi:10.1080/10314610802033205.
  • Cox, Rosie. 2013. “The Complications of ‘Hiring a Hubby’: Gender Relations and the Commoditisation of Home Maintenance in New Zealand.” Social & Cultural Geography 14 (5): 575–590. doi:10.1080/14649365.2012.704644.
  • Datta, Ayona. 2008. “Building Differences: Material Geographies of Home(s) Among Polish Builders in London.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33 (4): 518–531. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00320.x.
  • Datta, Ayona, and Katherine Brickell. 2009. “‘We Have a Little Bit More Finesse, as a Nation’: Constructing the Polish Worker in London's Building Sites.” Antipode 41 (3): 439–464. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00682.x.
  • Edensor, Tim. 2011. “Entangled Agencies, Material Networks and Repair in a Building Assemblage: The Mutable Stone of St Ann's Church, Manchester1.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 (2): 238–252. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00421.x.
  • Gelber, Stephen, M. 1997. “Do-It-Yourself: Constructing, Repairing and Maintaining Domestic Masculinity.” American Quarterly 49 (1): 66–112. doi:10.1353/aq.1997.0007.
  • Gorman-Murray, Andrew. 2008a. “Reconciling Self: Gay Men and Lesbians Using Domestic Materiality for Identity Management.” Social & Cultural Geography 9 (3): 283–301. doi:10.1080/14649360801990504.
  • Gorman-Murray, Andrew. 2008b. “Masculinity and the Home: A Critical Review and Conceptual Framework.” Australian Geographer 39 (3): 367–379. doi:10.1080/00049180802270556.
  • Gorman-Murray, Andrew. 2011. “Economic Crises and Emotional Fallout: Work, Home and Men's Senses of Belonging in Post-GFC Sydney.” Emotion, Space and Society 4 (4): 211–220. doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2010.06.003.
  • Gorman-Murray, Andrew, and Carey-Ann Morrison. 2012. “Revisiting Geographies of Sexuality and Gender Down Under.” New Zealand Geographer 68 (2): 77–80. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2012.01224.x.
  • Gorman-Murray, Andrew, Gordon Waitt, and Lynda Johnston. 2008. “Guest Editorial – Geographies of Sexuality and Gender ‘Down Under’.” Australian Geographer 39 (3): 235–246. doi:10.1080/00049180802270440.
  • Graham, Stephen, and Nigel Thrift. 2007. “Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance.” Theory, Culture and Society 24 (3): 1–25. doi:10.1177/0263276407075954.
  • Hitchings, Russell. 2004. “At Home with Someone Nonhuman.” Home Cultures 1 (2): 169–186. doi:10.2752/174063104778053554.
  • Hobson, Kersty. 2006. “Bins, Bulbs, and Shower Timers: On the ‘Techno-Ethics’ of Sustainable Living.” Ethics, Place & Environment 9 (3): 317–336. doi:10.1080/13668790600902375.
  • Jackson, Andrew. 2006. “Labour as Leisure – The Mirror Dinghy and DIY Sailors.” Journal of Design History 19 (1): 57–67. doi:10.1093/jdh/epk005.
  • Justlanded.com. 2014. “New Zealand Houses: The Typical New Zealand Housing Styles.” Accessed December 3, 2014. http://www.justlanded.com/english/New-Zealand/Articles/Housing-Rentals/New-Zealand-Houses.
  • Kearnes, Matthew, B. 2003. “Geographies that Matter – The Rhetorical Deployment of Physicality?.” Social & Cultural Geography 4 (2): 139–152. doi:10.1080/14649360309061.
  • Kilkey, Majella, and Diane Perrons. 2010. “Gendered Divisions in Domestic Work Time: The Rise of the (Migrant) Handyman Phenomenon.” Time & Society 19 (2): 239–264. doi:10.1177/0961463X09354439.
  • Law, Robin, Hugh Campbell, and Ruth Schick. 1999. “Introduction.” In Masculinities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, edited by Robin Law, Hugh Campbell, and John Dolan, 13–35. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press.
  • Leonard, Lorraine, Harvey Perkins, and David Thorns. 2004. “Presenting and Creating Home: The Influence of Popular and Building Trade Print Media in the Construction of Home.” Housing, Theory and Society 21 (3): 97–110. doi:10.1080/14036090410000480.
  • Longhurst, Robyn, Lynda Johnston, and Elsie Ho. 2009. “A Visceral Approach: Cooking ‘at Home’ with Migrant Women in Hamilton, New Zealand.” Transcations of the Institute of British Geographers 34 (3): 333–345. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00349.x.
  • Mackay, Michael. 2011. DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Home Improvement in New Zealand, PhD diss., Lincoln University.
  • Mackay, Michael, Harvey Perkins, and Bob Gidlow. 2007. “Constructing and Maintaining a Central Element of Housing Culture in New Zealand: DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Home Building, Renovation and Maintenance.” Paper presented at Transformations in Housing, Urban Life and Public Policy Conference, Seoul, Korea, 30 August–September 1.
  • McNaughton, Howard. 2009. “Re-Inscribing the Urban Abject: Ngai Tahu and the Gothic Revival.” New Zealand Geographer 65 (1): 48–58. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01147.x.
  • Morrison, Carey-Ann. 2012. “Home and Heterosexuality in Aotearoa New Zealand: The Spaces and Practices of DIY and Home Renovation.” New Zealand Geographer 68 (2): 121–129. doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2012.01226.x.
  • Morrison, Carey-Ann. 2013. “Homemaking in New Zealand: Thinking Through the Mutually Constitutive Relationship Between Domestic Material Objects, Heterosexuality and Home.” Gender, Place and Culture 20 (4): 413–431. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2012.694358.
  • Pahl, Ray. 1984. Divisions of Labour. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Phillips, Jock. 1996. A Man's Country. Auckland: Penguin Books.
  • Pilkey, Brent. 2014. “Queering Heteronormativity at Home: Older Gay Londoners and the Negotiation of Domestic Materiality.” Gender, Place and Culture 21 (9): 1142–1157. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2013.832659.
  • Pink, Sarah. 2012. Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places. London: Sage.
  • Powley, Kathryn. 2013. “Kiwi Bloke is Alive and, Er, Well….” The New Zealand Herald, Sunday, Jan 13. Accessed December 4, 2014. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id = 1&objectid = 10858783.
  • Schick, Ruth, and John Dolan. 1999. “Masculinity and A Man's Country in 1998.” In Masculinities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, edited by Robin Law, Hugh Campbell, and John Dolan, 46–64. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press.
  • Shove, Elizabeth. 2003. Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality. Oxford: Berg.
  • Shove, Elizabeth, Mika Pantzar, and Matt Watson. 2012. The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes. London: Sage.
  • Shove, Elizabeth, Matt Watson, Martin Hand, and Jack Ingram. 2007. The Design of Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg.
  • Skinner, Robin. 2000. “Home Way: A State House in London.” In At Home in New Zealand: History Houses, People, edited by Barbara Brookes, 155–164. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books.
  • Statistics New Zealand. 2013. “Ethnic groups in New Zealand Census 2006.” Accessed July 17. http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/QuickStats/quickstats-about-a-subject/culture-and-identity/ethnic-groups-in-new-zealand.aspx.
  • Tolia-Kelly, Divya, P. 2004a. “Locating Processes of Identification: Studying the Precipitates of Re-Memory Through Artefacts in the British Asian Home.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29 (3): 314–329. doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00303.x.
  • Tolia-kelly, Divya, P. 2004b. “Materializing Post-Colonial Geographies: Examining the Textural Landscapes of Migration in the South Asian Home.” Geoforum 35 (6): 675–688. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.02.006.
  • Waitt, Gordon, and Andrew Warren. 2008. “‘Talking Shit Over a Brew After a Good Session with Your Mates’: Surfing, Space and Masculinity.” Australian Geographer 39 (3): 353–365. doi:10.1080/00049180802270549.
  • Watson, Matt, and Elizabeth Shove. 2008. “Product, Competence, Project and Practice: DIY and the Dynamics of Craft Consumption.” Journal of Consumer Culture 8 (1): 69–89. doi:10.1177/1469540507085726.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.