Our Mothers’ Land
Chapters in Welsh Women’s History, 1830-1939
Distributed for University of Wales Press
© 1991, 2011
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Another Chronology
Two Decades of Development: Introduction to the New Edition
Introduction to the 1991 Edition
1. Women, Community and Collective Action: The Ceffyl Pren Tradition
Rosemary A. N. Jones
2. Beyond Paternalism: The Ironmaster’s Wife in the Industrial Community
Angela V. John
3. The True ‘Cymraes’: Images of Women in Women’s Nineteenth-Century Welsh Periodicals
Sian Rhiannon Williams
4. ‘Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night’? Women and Suicide in Carmarthenshire, c. 1860–1920
Russell Davies
5. Counting the Cost of Coal: Women’s Lives in the Rhondda, 1881–1911
Dot Jones
6. From Temperance to Suffrage?
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
7. ‘The Petty Antics of the Bell-Ringing Boisterous Band’? The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1890-1918
Kay Cook and Neil Evans
8. Munitionettes, Maids and Mams: Women in Wales, 1914–1939
Deirdre Beddoe
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Another Chronology
Two Decades of Development: Introduction to the New Edition
Introduction to the 1991 Edition
1. Women, Community and Collective Action: The Ceffyl Pren Tradition
Rosemary A. N. Jones
2. Beyond Paternalism: The Ironmaster’s Wife in the Industrial Community
Angela V. John
3. The True ‘Cymraes’: Images of Women in Women’s Nineteenth-Century Welsh Periodicals
Sian Rhiannon Williams
4. ‘Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night’? Women and Suicide in Carmarthenshire, c. 1860–1920
Russell Davies
5. Counting the Cost of Coal: Women’s Lives in the Rhondda, 1881–1911
Dot Jones
6. From Temperance to Suffrage?
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
7. ‘The Petty Antics of the Bell-Ringing Boisterous Band’? The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1890-1918
Kay Cook and Neil Evans
8. Munitionettes, Maids and Mams: Women in Wales, 1914–1939
Deirdre Beddoe
Index
Review Quotes
Planet
“Chapter after highly readable chapter brings vividly to life the struggles of Welsh women to gain a modicum of control over narrowly circumscribed existences.”
Gender & History
“This book . . . makes important inroads in unpacking the specific social, economic and cultural factors pertaining to women’s lives within Welsh society. . . . The essays are diverse and highly readable.”
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