While many advocated bodily improvement for the sake of the nation's well-being, Daley shows that not everyone was motivated by such civic desires. The pleasure gained from looking and being looked at, from having fun in the surf and sand or on the swings and roundabouts, is an understudied aspect of our past.
Author Biography
Caroline Daley is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. She is the coeditor of the New Zealand Journal of History and a past editor of the Women's Studies Journal. She is the author of Girls and Women, Men and Boys, Suffrage and Beyond, and The Gendered Kiwi.
