Pat Rosier
New Zealand writer, editor and feminist activist
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
Poppy's return Pat Rosier, Spinifex , 2004 ISBN 9781742191560
Poppy's progress Pat Rosier, Spinifex , 2002 ISBN 1742191525
Stones gathered together : a collection of stories and thoughts Pat Rosier, Smashwords , 2012. ISBN 1301009016
Take it easy Pat Rosier, Smashwords , 2008. ISBN 0473130556
Where the heArt is Pat Rosier, Smashwords , 2013. ISBN 0473237415
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