Hilary Mary Lapsley (also Hilary Mary Haines, born 1949) is a New Zealand author, psychologist and social studies academic, specialising in gender studies. She was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993, and the Judy Grahn Award for lesbian non-fiction in 2000.
Hilary Lapsley | |
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| Born | 1949 |
| Other names | Hilary Haines |
| Awards | New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Auckland, Mental Health Foundation, University of Waikato, Chief Scientist Office |
Early life and education
editLapsley was born in Auckland in 1949 to Robin and Sylvia Lapsley, a minister and a teacher respectively.[1] Lapsley attended the University of Auckland, where she completed a Master of Arts with honours in 1979 followed by a PhD titled The origins of modern social psychology at the University of Auckland in 1980.[2]
Career
editLapsley worked as a research officer for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, rising to deputy director, and then in 1988 was appointed as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Waikato.[1] In 2001 she became a senior analyst at the Mental Health Commission of New Zealand. Most recently Lapsley was a senior researcher at the University of Auckland, and contributed to the Ageing Well National Science Challenge.[3][4] Lapsley was a National Convenor of the Women's Studies Association, and as of October 2024[update] serves on the committee.[5][1] Lapsley wrote a book on the professional and personal relationship between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2001.[6][7][8]
Personal life
editLapsley used to live on Waiheke Island, but bought into the Cohaus co-housing development in Grey Lynn with her partner Lois Cox. They divide their time between Auckland and Cox's home in Wellington.[9] Lapsley and Cox have written three lesbian mystery novels together, under the pen name Jennifer Palgrave.[10][11]
Honours and awards
editIn 1992 Lapsley was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship,[12] and in 1993 she was awarded a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[13] The medal was given to recognize those people who had made a significant contribution to women's rights or women's issues in New Zealand. She was awarded the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for lesbian non-fiction in 2000 for her book on Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.[1]
Selected works
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Books
edit- Lapsley, Hilary (1987). Mental Health for Women. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed.
- Lapsley, Hilary (15 June 2001). Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1558492950.
- Palgrave, Jennifer (26 April 2020). The One That Got Away. Town Belt Press. ASIN B087Q6Z6MM.
- Palgrave, Jennifer (1 March 2021). Rising Tide. Town Belt Press. ISBN 9780473560508.
- Palgrave, Jennifer (22 July 2024). Where the River Goes. Town Belt Press. ISBN 9780473709945.
Other
edit- Hilary Lapsley; Linda Waimarie Nikora; Rosanne Marjory Black (2002), "Kia Mauri Tau!" Narratives of recovery from disabling mental health problems, Te Hiringa Mahara, hdl:10289/1666, Wikidata Q130511430
- H Haines; G M Vaughan (1 October 1979). "Was 1898 a "great date" in the history of experimental social psychology?". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 15 (4): 323–332. doi:10.1002/1520-6696(197910)15:4<323::AID-JHBS2300150405>3.0.CO;2-I. ISSN 0022-5061. PMID 11608235. Wikidata Q74634667.
- Tia Dawes; Marama Muru-Lanning; Hilary Lapsley; et al. (13 December 2020). "Hongi, Harirū and Hau: Kaumātua in the time of COVID-19". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 51 (sup1): S23–S36. doi:10.1080/03036758.2020.1853182. ISSN 0303-6758. Wikidata Q130348567.
- Hilary Lapsley; Ngaire Kerse; Simon A. Moyes; Sally Keeling; Marama Leigh Muru-Lanning; Janine Wiles; Santosh Jatrana (19 November 2018). "Do household living arrangements explain gender and ethnicity differences in receipt of support services? Findings from LiLACS NZ Māori and non-Māori advanced age cohorts". Ageing & Society. 40 (5): 1004–1020. doi:10.1017/S0144686X18001514. ISSN 0144-686X. Wikidata Q130510748.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Hilary Lapsley.". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale In Context: Biography. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. 2008.
- ^ Haines, Hilary Mary (1980). The origins of modern social psychology (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/56219.
- ^ "Dr Hilary Lapsley". Newsroom. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Mā mua ka kite a muri; mā muri ka ora a mua". Ageing Well National Science Challenge. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "About Us WSANZ". www.wsanz.org.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: the kinship of women". Choice Reviews Online. 37 (8): 37–4577-37-4577. 1 April 2000. doi:10.5860/choice.37-4577. ISSN 0009-4978.
- ^ Janiewski, Dolores E. (September 2002). "Hilary Lapsley. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women. x + 351 pp., illus., bibl., index. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. $34.95". Isis. 93 (3): 518. doi:10.1086/374126. ISSN 0021-1753.
- ^ Delaney, E. (2002). "Review of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women, by H. Lapsley". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 21 (1): 118–120. JSTOR 41053900.
- ^ Hawkes, Colleen (10 July 2022). "What it's like to retire to a co-housing development, with neighbours from 1 to 80". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Jennifer Palgrave – Samesame But Different". Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Book review - The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave". RNZ. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "New Zealand Research Scholar and Lecturer Alumni". fulbright.org.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 - Register of recipients | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2024.