Interview with Barbara Goodman

Barbara Goodman outlines family background; childhood; views on religion; education at Epsom Normal Intermediate School and Saint Cuthbert's College; coping with shyness and public speaking; political views; views on Maori and Maori issues; employment expectations; difficult aspects of life; marriage to Harold Goodman; children and motherhood; suffering from suburban neurosis; role as Mayoress of Auckland; effect on health and domestic life.

Discusses views on women's movement; glass ceiling; sexism; work for Suffrage Year celebrations; involvement in the Telethon Trust for the Year of the Disabled; involvement in Odyssey House for drug rehabilitation, reference Mary Moody, John Evans, Warren Brookbanks, Brian Picot; difficulties encountered with Trust; enjoyment of challenges; involvement with Campaign for Tolerance, reference to fundamentalism, Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, homosexual law reform; involvement with abortion law reform, reference to George Gair, Martyn Findlay, Marilyn Waring, Jim McLay, Hugh Williams.

Describes death of husband; becoming deputy mayor; becoming Dame Commander of the British Empire; amount of work as city councillor and leisure; current goals; most satisfying aspect of life.

Accompanying material - Copy of typewritten CV; copy of brief biography column from unknown source.

Venue - Auckland

Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke

Venue - 22 Tohunga Crescent, Parnell, Auckland

Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1127.

Search dates: 1993