Trust : a true story of women & gangs / Pip Desmond.
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House New Zealand, 2009.Description: 319 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781869792435 (pbk.) :
- True story of women & gangs
- True story of women and gangs
- NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction Award 2009 Winner.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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 |
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.