Mana wahine reader. Volume 1, A collection of writings 1987-1998 / edited by: Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Naomi Simmonds, Joeliee Seed-Pihama and Kirsten Gabel

First published as Education research monograph (Te Kotahi Research Institute) number 3

Includes bibliographical references

Poem. Don't mess with the Māori woman / Linda Tuhiwai Smith -- Article 1. To us the dreamers are important / Rangimarie Mihomiho Rose Pere -- Article 2. He aha te mea nui? / Waerete Norman -- Article 3. He whiriwhiri wāhine: framing women's studies for Aotearoa / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Article 4. Kia mau, kia manawanui we will never go away: experiences of a Māori lesbian feminist / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Article 5. Māori women: discourses, projects and mana wahine / Linda Tuhiwai Smith -- Article 6. Becoming an academic: contradictions and dilemmas of a Māori feminist / Kathie Irwin -- Article 7. Towards theories of Māori feminisms / Kathie Irwin -- Article 8. Reflections on the status of Māori women / Kuni Jenkins -- Article 9. Getting out from down under: Māori women, education and the struggles for mana wahine -- Linda Tuhiwai Smith -- Article 10. From head and shoulders / Merata Mita -- Article 11. Hokianga waiata a ngā tūpuna wāhine: journeys through mana wahine, mana tane / Margie Hohepa -- Article 12. The marginalisation of Māori women / Patricia Johnston and Leonie Pihama -- Article 13. The negation of powerlessness: Māori feminism, a perspective / Ripeka Evans -- Article 14. Māori women: caught in the contradictions of a colonised reality / Ani Mikaere -- Article 15. What counts as difference and what differences count: gender, race and the politics of difference / Patricia Johnston and Leonie Pihama -- Article 16. Māori women and domestic violence: the methodology of research and the Māori perspective / Stephanie Milroy -- Article 17. Towards a theory of mana wahine / Huia Tomlins Jahnke -- Article 18. Sacred balance / Aroha Te Pareake Mead

In 2019 Te Kotahi Research Institute collated and compiled a selection of papers, written between 1999 to 2019 by wahine Maori across a range of discipline, about their experience as wahine Maori in Aoteroa New Zealand. Published in two volumes, Mana Wahine Reader 1 (1987-1998) and Mana Wahine Reader 2 (1999-2019) present wahine Maori at the coalface within their respective institutions, iwi or hapu - managing students, the Academy and even at times their own expectations. The Mana Wahine Readers were originally published by Te Kotahi Reseacrh Institute and have been republished by Te Takupu, Te Wananga o Raukawa in 2022. They were edited by Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Naomi Simmonds, Joeliee Seed-Pihama and Kirsten Gabel. Robyn Kakukiwa's artwork encases these collections or writing by wahine Maori.