# Pat Rosier

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**Patricia Jean Rosier** (21 January 1942 – 12 June 2014) was a [New Zealand](/source/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](/source/Second-wave_feminism) of New Zealand's Women's Movement,[2] including editing [Broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet_(magazine)) for six years.[3][4] In her later years she lived with [Prue Hyman](/source/Prue_Hyman) in [Paekākāriki](/source/Paek%C4%81k%C4%81riki), north of [Wellington](/source/Wellington).

## Works

### Non-fiction

- *[Broadsheet](/source/Broadsheet_(magazine))* Editor (1986 to 1992)
- *Broadsheet, twenty years of Broadsheet Magazine selected and introduced by Pat Rosier.* 1992. [New Women's Press](/source/New_Women's_Press), Auckland, NZ. ISBN 0908652682
- *Get used to it!: children of gay and lesbian parents* Pat Rosier and [Myra Hauschild](/source/Myra_Hauschild), [Canterbury University Press](/source/Canterbury_University_Press), 1999. ISBN 0908812868
- *Women's studies: conference papers 1982* [Hilary Lapsley](/source/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](/source/Canterbury_University_Press), 2001. ISBN 1877257060
- *No body's perfect: a self-help book for women who have problems with food* [Jasbindar Singh](/source/Jasbindar_Singh) and Pat Rosier [New Women's Press](/source/New_Women's_Press), 1989. ISBN 0908652461
- *No body's perfect: dealing with food problems* [Jasbindar Singh](/source/Jasbindar_Singh) and Pat Rosier, [Attic Press](/source/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](/source/Sue_Kedgley) and [Mary Varnham](/source/Mary_Varnham) [Daphne Brasell Associates Press](/source/Daphne_Brasell_Associates_Press), 1993. ISBN 0908896301
- *Women's studies tutor kit* [Candis Crave](/source/Candis_Crave), [Margot Roth](/source/Margot_Roth), [Claire-Louise McCurdy](/source/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](/source/Spinifex_(publisher)), 2004 ISBN 9781742191560
- *Poppy's progress* Pat Rosier, [Spinifex](/source/Spinifex_(publisher)), 2002 ISBN 1742191525
- *[Stones gathered together : a collection of stories and thoughts](https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/281730)* Pat Rosier, [Smashwords](/source/Smashwords), 2012. ISBN 1301009016
- *[Take it easy](https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4048)* Pat Rosier, [Smashwords](/source/Smashwords), 2008. ISBN 0473130556
- *[Where the heArt is](https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/125647)* Pat Rosier, [Smashwords](/source/Smashwords), 2013. ISBN 0473237415

## References

1. ["Pat Rosier — Shalom | Kapiti Independent"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141014065602/http://robin.hosts.net.nz/~admin219/pat-rosier-shalom/). Archived from [the original](http://robin.hosts.net.nz/~admin219/pat-rosier-shalom/) on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

1. ["Re-writing 2nd Wave Women's Movement: Pat Rosier – h/T Hand Mirror"](https://thestandard.org.nz/re-writing-2nd-wave-womens-movement-pat-rosier-ht-hand-mirror/). 19 July 2014.

1. Hayes, Kimberley (2013). [*Race relations in New Zealand Through an Analysis of Broadsheet Magazine 1972-1989*](http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/8620) (BA(Hons)). University of Canterbury. [doi:10.26021/4453](https://doi.org/10.26021/4453)

1. Du Plessis, Rosemary (2008). [*What happened to the 'f' word? Feminisms and Public Sociologies*](https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5019)

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