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Win a copy of The New Zealand Woman! (plus a bonus draw for Twitter followers)

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It’s time for another competition dear readers! And this is a doozy too… I’ve got three copies of The New Zealand Woman: 80 Glorious Years of Fashion, Food and Friendship From the Pages of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly by Bee Dawson to give away! Check out my review here.

The New Zealand Woman cover

Wooden spoon? Check. Bowl? Check. Cookbook? Check. Red lipstick? You’re darn right I’ve got my red lipstick.

Winning is, as they say, a snap. Just fill in the form below and you could be one of three randomly drawn lucky readers! That’s it. The competition is open until 6pm Saturday 28 July.

This competition is now closed.

Plus I’m going to run an extra bonus draw for my lovely Twitterers…. between now and 6pm Wednesday 25 July just tweet using the hashtag #BookieMonsterandNZWW and the URL to this post (it’s http://wp.me/pw2ad-1oF ) and you’ll go in the draw!

Here’s some suggested tweets:

 I love @BookieMonsterNZ because she’s going to give me stuff if I’m lucky! #BookieMonsterandNZWW http://wp.me/pw2ad-1oF

It’s amazing how awesome @BookieMonsterNZ is! Really, I mean it. #BookieMonsterandNZWW http://wp.me/pw2ad-1oF

I just really want to win something. #BookieMonsterandNZWW http://wp.me/pw2ad-1oF

Books, yadda yadda. #BookieMonsterandNZWW http://wp.me/pw2ad-1oF

Or just make up your own splendiferousness! Just don’t forget to follow me, otherwise I won’t be able to DM you to tell you you’ve won. Doh.

That’s a total of four copies going, plus you can enter both draws. Get to it, what ho!

Rules and Conditions:

  1. The website competition will run from Sunday 22 July 2012 to Saturday 28 July 2012, 6pm. The Twitter competition will run from Sunday 22 July 2012 to Wednesday 25 July, 6pm.
  2. Each winner will win one copy of The New Zealand Woman, posted to a New Zealand address. Winners will be randomly drawn. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  3. We cannot post outside New Zealand, sorry.
  4. Entrants’ details will only be used for the purposes of this promotion and will be discarded following the close of the promotion.
  5. One entry per person.
  6. The website draw winners will be notified by email, the Twitter draw winner will be notified by Twitter Direct Message.
  7. The name of the Winners may be published on the BookieMonster website.
  8. When a Winner is unable to be contacted via the information given, due to no reply or emails returned, a second winner will be drawn after 7 days.

Book Review: The New Zealand Woman by Bee Dawson

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The New Zealand Woman coverThe New Zealand Woman: 80 Glorious Years of Fashion, Food and Friendship From the Pages of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly by Bee Dawson, Whitcoulls, RRP $24.99, ISBN 9781877327513, Available now.

The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. It’s an institution and now it’s 80 years old. Yes, 80! I didn’t realise it had been around that long but it has, first gracing news-stands in 1932. With all those years of free patterns, up to the minute advice and endless photos of Rachel Hunter, there aren’t many NZers around who haven’t read a copy (or two).

The New Zealand Woman is a well produced, wonderfully illustrated celebration of the past 80 years of the EnZedDubDub (or NZWW if you insist), that pulls together articles, photography, illustrations and advertising to produce quite a repository of New Zealand history in the 20th century.

From recipes for pork brawn to handy hints on dusting with kerosene to cigarette advertising (“It’s the tobacco that counts!”), The New Zealand Woman also provides an interesting study on the rise of celebratory culture and the change to “women’s magazines” over the last half century, from inspirational (about “our” lives) to aspirational (about “their lives”).

A fun social history of a Kiwi institution.

I’ve got several copies of The New Zealand Woman to give away! Keep an eye out over the next few weeks for how to win – starting with this week’s competition on Facebook.