Too many men and too few women: gender's 'fatal impact' in nineteenth-century colonies / Charlotte Macdonald -- Families and the gendering of European New Zealand in the colonial period, 1840-80 / Erik Olssen -- Criminal conversations: infanticide, gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Bronwyn Dalley -- A gendered domain: leisure in Auckland, 1890-1940 / Caroline Daley -- Bread queues and breadwinners: gender in the 1930s / Tim Frank -- Good clothes are good business: gender, consumption and appearance in the office, 1918-39 / Danielle Sprecher -- Sweethearts, soldiers, happy families: gender and the Second World War / Deborah Montgomerie -- The man in the grey flannel suit: white-collar masculinity in post-war New Zealand / Frazer Andrewes -- Men, women and leisure since the Second World War / Jock Phillips -- 'When Dad was a woman': gender relations in the 1970s / Barbara Brookes