Anne Else MNZM (born 1945) is a New Zealand writer, researcher and editor.[1]
Life
editElse was born and grew up in Auckland. She studied English at the University of Auckland, graduating with a master's degree. She initially lectured at the university before moving overseas.[1]
Else was a co-founder of the New Zealand feminist magazine Broadsheet, which was published from 1972 to 1992.[2] Much of her work is concerned with feminist social commentary, analysis and history. She has written articles, reviews and commentary for New Zealand magazines and journals, including Broadsheet, New Zealand Listener, Landfall, Women’s Studies Journal, and has also been published in scholarly journals overseas.[1]
In the 2004 New Year Honours, Else was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature. In 2006 she completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. Her thesis was an autobiography titled ‘On shifting ground: Self-narrative, feminist theory and writing practice’.[3] A section of her memoir won the 2009 Pamela Tomlinson prize for creative writing. The full memoir, telling her life story told through her experiences of food, was published in 2013 as The Colour of Food.[1]
Else has made a particular study of the history of closed stranger adoption in New Zealand, arising from her own experience of having been adopted in a closed adoption as an infant in 1945.[4] Her original study, published in 1991, was updated and reissued in 2022 (with Maria Haenga-Collins) to also cover state care, donor conception and surrogacy.[5] She has talked about the need to update the 1955 Adoption Act, having studied its history and its impact on many New Zealanders.[4] She gave evidence about the history of the state's involvement in closed stranger adoption to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in 2019.[6][7]
Publications
editAs author:
- A Question of Adoption: Closed Stranger Adoption in New Zealand 1944-74 (Bridget Williams Books, 1991)[8]
- False Economy: New Zealanders face the Conflict between Paid and Unpaid Work (Tandem Press, 1996)[9]
- A Super Future? The Price of Growing Older in New Zealand (with Susan St John, Tandem Press, 1998)[10]
- The Colour of Food (Awa Press, 2013)[11]
- A Question of Adoption: Closed Stranger Adoption in New Zealand 1944-74 and Adoption, State Care, Doron Conception and Surrogacy 1975 - 2022 (with Maria Haenga-Collins) (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)[5]
As editor:
- A Woman’s Life: Writing by Women About Female Experience in New Zealand (with Heather Roberts, Penguin Books, 1989)[12]
- Protecting our Future: The Case for Greater Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology (with Sandra Coney, 1999)
- Women Together: A History of Women’s Organisations in New Zealand / Ngā Rōpū Wāhine o te Motu, (Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1993; updated and republished in 2018 on the NZHistory website).
References
edit- ^ a b c d "| Read New Zealand Te Pou Muramura". www.read-nz.org. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ "Anne Else | NZHistory, New Zealand history online". nzhistory.govt.nz. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ Else, Anne (2006). On Shifting Ground: Self-narrative, Feminist Theory and Writing Practice (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16926328.
- ^ a b Development, PodBean. "Adoption: From severance and secrecy to connection and openness | New Zealand History". newzealandhistory.podbean.com. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ a b "A Question of Adoption - BWB Bridget Williams Books". www.bwb.co.nz. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ Else, Anne (2019). "Witness Statement to the Abuse in Case Royal Commission of Inquiry" (PDF).
- ^ "Contextual hearing: 5 November witness list and evidence summaries | Abuse in Care - Royal Commission of Inquiry". www.abuseincare.org.nz. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ Modell, Judith (1 March 1993). "Book Reviews : ANNE ELSE, A Question of Adoption. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 1991, xiii + 241 pp". Social & Legal Studies. 2 (1): 119–120. doi:10.1177/096466399300200111. ISSN 0964-6639.
- ^ Else, Anne (1996). False economy: New Zealanders face the conflict between paid and unpaid work. North Shore City, N.Z: Tandem Press. ISBN 0908884826.
- ^ "A super future? : the price of growing older in New Zealand / Anne Else & Susan St John. | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. St. John, Susan, 1945-. 1 January 1998. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Awa Press » The Colour of Food: A Memoir of life, love and dinner". awapress.com. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ Else, Anne; Roberts, Heather (1989). A Woman's life : writing by women about female experience in New Zealand. Auckland, N.Z. ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books. ISBN 0140106634.