Browsing by Author "Ritchie, Jane"

• Commentary: Women’s violence to children 

  Ritchie, Jane (University of Otago Press, 2005)

  Feminists often feel uncomfortable about talking about, or even acknowledging, women's violence, whether it be women's violence to men, women's violence to other women, or women's violence to children. It is now generally ...

  

• Dads: Delights, desires and difficulties: A discussion of changes over the last 40 years in fathers' roles, attitudes and practices 

  Ritchie, Jane (The New Zealand Psychological Society, 2001)

  In this paper I discuss changes over the last forty years in fathers' roles, attitudes and practices. In general, fathers are more positive about their role and spend more time with their infants and four year olds. They ...

  

• An exploratory study of the sexual health knowledge and attitudes of Asian male student sojourners in New Zealand 

  Omura, Saburo; Hills, Michael; Ritchie, Jane (Scalabrini Migration Center, 2006)

  This study looked into the sexual and general health attitudes of Asian male student sojourners in New Zealand. The following issues on sexual and general health were probed: level of awareness, views and perceptions, ...

  

• Maori children and death: Views from parents 

  Jacob, Juanita; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Ritchie, Jane (2011-12)

  Research about Maori children's experiences and perceptions of death and tangi (Maori death rituals) is sparse. What is available tends to be generalised and stems from Western paradigms of knowledge. In this study we ...

  

• New Zealand families: Child-rearing practices and attitudes 

  Ritchie, Jane (Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007)

  Traditionally, the study of families has been the domain of sociology rather than of psychology. For sociologists the family is an important ‘institution’ because it is a key social structure that shapes the way society ...

  

• Reforming institutional responses to violence against women 

  Robertson, Neville (The University of Waikato, 1999)

  Battering has been described as an example of the total institution (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. ...

  

• Women in management in New Zealand: a study of biographical data, managerial style and sex role self-concept 

  Place, Helen Ivy (The University of Waikato, 1977)

  In New Zealand, women form three point nine percent (3.9%) of the managerial population. In considering this overall lack of women in management and accepting that both males and females possess equal potential for developing ...

  

• Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence 

  Hamerton, Heather (The University of Waikato, 2000)

  This study investigated the processes by which women construct their “selves” using the memories of adolescent experiences of five Pakeha women who went to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an ...

  

• Telling secrets: the process of disclosure for women with stigmatised experiences 

  Muir, Nicole Annette (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  Social science knowledge has largely been developed via research utilising information that is disclosed by people. Yet little is known about the dynamics and process of disclosure itself. In the present study, a grounded ...

  

• Someone else’s gender: locating the transsexual narrative in the gendered landscape 

  Bates, Denise J. (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  This thesis draws on 64 published life-stories of transsexuals to explore the structure and performance of gender in Western society. The concepts of “normal”, “natural”, or “ordinary”, gender are based on a set of largely ...

  

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