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Gender in Modern Welsh History

Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000

An in-depth study of the impact of gender in modern Welsh society.

This edited collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth century and concluding with women’s late twentieth-century antinuclear activism, the contributors examine how gender has been constructed, represented, performed, and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales’s modern past.

280 pages | 11 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2023

Gender Studies in Wales

Gender and Sexuality

History: British and Irish History

Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory


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Reviews

"Cutting-edge historical research is skilfully distilled into ten stimulating and eminently readable essays. This is an important collection that dissects and deepens understanding of gender and gender relations in Welsh society between 1750 and 2000."

Angela V. John, President of Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Angela Muir, ‘Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 17501830’
Marion Löffler, ‘Family Matters: WarTime Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793–1805’
Paul O’Leary, ‘Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 18701914’
Steven Thompson, ‘“Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?’ Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.18701939’
Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, ‘Spaces and Places of Women’s Social Movements in Wales, 18901914’
Mike BenboughJackson, ‘Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War’
Simon Jenkins, ‘Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900c.1945’
Stephanie Ward, ‘Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales’
Jay Rees, ‘“Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn’t like it”: Women’s Activism at Swansea University, 19701990’
Elaine Titcombe, ‘Reflections of gender in antinuclear politics in Wales 19702000’
Endnotes

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