Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives
Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives
Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Wales
Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives rectifies that mistake, drawing on a wealth of family stories about women’s roles in education, the church, and the family in order to address significant gaps in our knowledge of women and Welsh culture.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Womanhood, Wales and Culture
2. Narratives, Biography and Culture: Situating Participants’ Life Stories
3. Women and Society 1940–1970: Culture, Gender and Politics
4. Havens in a Heartless World: Accounts of Gender, Femininity and Domestic Life
5. Education and Attainment: Women’s Roles in Informal and Formal Schooling
6. Cultures of Aspiration: Women and the Genesis of Cultural Capital
7. Religion and Spiritual Life
8. Moral Guardianship and Respectability: Lives Beyond Suspicion
9. Culture, Capital, Learning and Conversion in the New Generation
Appendix: Table Outlining Participants’ Details
Bibliography
Index