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Trust : a true story of women & gangs / Pip Desmond.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House New Zealand, 2009.Description: 319 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869792435 (pbk.) :
Other title:
  • True story of women & gangs
  • True story of women and gangs
Subject(s): Awards:
  • NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction Award 2009 Winner.
Summary: "In 1977 an idealistic young doctor's daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. 'Whaddya want?' the woman growled. So began Pip Desmond's extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical 'men's work', lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn't want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women's stories – much of it in their own words – with the respect and compassion that comes from a shared bond over 30 years. By turns angry, funny, hair-raising, tender, frightening and heartbreaking, Trust above all celebrates the women's struggles to overcome their pasts and build a future for their children. As a unique insight into New Zealand's social history and a way to understand women and gangs, it is without peer."--Back cover. Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Te Taurawhiri Te Taurawhiri 362.83 DES Available T00491910
Heritage & Archives Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections Reference - not for loan 362.83 DES 1 Reference Only T00491879
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 362.83 DES Available T00491889
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 362.83 DES 2 Available T00491920
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 362.83 DES 4 Available T00493432
Te Taurawhiri Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Te Taurawhiri Te Taurawhiri 362.83 DES 5 Available T00491874
Te Taurawhiri Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Te Taurawhiri Te Taurawhiri 362.83 DES 7 Available T00491925
Te Taurawhiri Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Te Taurawhiri Te Taurawhiri 362.83 DES 9 Available T00491935
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Imagine being a middle-class, university-educated young Pakeha woman from Wellington's leafy suburbs and turning your back on all that to live in a house with Black Power gang connections in the rundown inner-city. This memoir lifts the lid on the lives of women who love gang members, and the price they pay.

Winner of the NZSA E.H McCormick best first book award for non-fiction.

New Zealand post book awards 2010 Finalist.


"In 1977 an idealistic young doctor's daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. 'Whaddya want?' the woman growled. So began Pip Desmond's extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical 'men's work', lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn't want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women's stories – much of it in their own words – with the respect and compassion that comes from a shared bond over 30 years. By turns angry, funny, hair-raising, tender, frightening and heartbreaking, Trust above all celebrates the women's struggles to overcome their pasts and build a future for their children. As a unique insight into New Zealand's social history and a way to understand women and gangs, it is without peer."--Back cover. Back cover.

NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction Award 2009 Winner.

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