Pat Rosier

Pat Rosier
BornPatricia Jean Rosier
(1942-01-21)21 January 1942
Auckland, New Zealand
Died12 June 2014(2014-06-12) (aged 72)
Paekākāriki, New Zealand
OccupationWriter, feminist activist
Alma materUniversity of Auckland

Patricia Jean Rosier (21 January 1942 – 12 June 2014) was a New Zealand writer, editor and feminist activist. Born and educated in Auckland into a working-class family, after marriage and raising two children she came out as a lesbian in the 1980s[1] and went on to play a leading role in the second wave of New Zealand's Women's Movement,[2] including editing Broadsheet for six years.[3][4] In her later years she lived with Prue Hyman in Paekākāriki, north of Wellington.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Broadsheet Editor (1986 to 1992)
  • Broadsheet, twenty years of Broadsheet Magazine selected and introduced by Pat Rosier. 1992. New Women's Press, Auckland, NZ. ISBN 0908652682
  • Get used to it!: children of gay and lesbian parents Pat Rosier and Myra Hauschild, Canterbury University Press, 1999. ISBN 0908812868
  • Women's studies: conference papers 1982 Hilary Lapsley, Pat Rosier, Claire-Louise McCurdy and Candis Craven, 1982.
  • The 14th Conference of the Women's Studies Association (N.Z.) : "Raranga wahine" Editing by Pat Rosier. 1988.
  • Workwise: a guide to managing workplace relationships Pat Rosier, Canterbury University Press, 2001. ISBN 1877257060
  • No body's perfect: a self-help book for women who have problems with food Jasbindar Singh and Pat Rosier New Women's Press, 1989. ISBN 0908652461
  • No body's perfect: dealing with food problems Jasbindar Singh and Pat Rosier, Attic Press, 1990. ISBN 1855940078
  • Lesbians in front, up front, out front Pat Rosier, book chapter in Heading nowhere in a navy blue suit: and other tales from the feminist revolution Susan Jane Kedgley and Mary Varnham Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1993. ISBN 0908896301
  • Women's studies tutor kit Candis Crave, Margot Roth, Claire-Louise McCurdy and Pat Rosier, Auckland Workers' Educational Association, Women's Studies Sub-Committee, 1983.
  • Women and Education Pat Rosier chapter in Perspectives on women today : lecture series, Term I, 1986.

Fiction

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