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    Trust
    Trust
    A True Story of Women and Gangs
    In 1977 an idealistic young doctor's daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run - down old house in inner - city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T - shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. 'Whaddya want?' the woman growled. So began Pip Desmond's extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical 'men's work', lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn't want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women's stories - much of it in their own words - with the respect and compassion that comes from a shared bond over 30 years. By turns angry, funny, hair - raising, tender, frightening and heartbreaking, Trust above all celebrates the women's struggles to overcome their pasts and build a future for their children. As a unique insight into New Zealand's social history and a way to understand women and gangs, it is without peer.
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    Book Author
    Pip Desmond
    Genre Biography & Autobiography
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459636569
    Publisher
    Penguin Random House New Zealand
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    01-Mar-2012

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