Gender in Modern Welsh History
Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000
Published on 15. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-83772-078-1 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative 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 anti-nuclear activism, the contributors show how gender has been constructed, represented, performed and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales's modern past. Using a variety of approaches, the collection interrogates gender as a concept that encompasses both femininity and masculinity, provides fresh perspectives on familiar themes, and demonstrates the value of gender analysis for our understanding of the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Wales. Chapters by leading historians and early career academics each set an agenda for exploring the intersection of gender with nationality, race, class, age and sexuality.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83772-078-1 (9781837720781)
DOI
10.1234/b11320
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Beth Jenkins | Paul O'Leary | Stephanie Ward
Gender in Modern Welsh History
Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000
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11/2023
1st Edition
University of Wales Press
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Persons
Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex. Paul O'Leary is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth University. Stephanie Ward is a senior lecturer in modern Welsh history at Cardiff University.
Content
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Angela Muir, 'Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830'
Marion Loeffler, 'Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793-1805'
Paul O'Leary, 'Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914'
Steven Thompson, '"Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?' Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939'
Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, 'Spaces and Places of Women's Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914'
Mike Benbough-Jackson, 'Nation and Gender: St David, St David's Day and Masculinity during the Great War'
Simon Jenkins, 'Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.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, 1970-1990'
Elaine Titcombe, 'Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000'
Endnotes
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Angela Muir, 'Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830'
Marion Loeffler, 'Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793-1805'
Paul O'Leary, 'Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914'
Steven Thompson, '"Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?' Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939'
Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, 'Spaces and Places of Women's Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914'
Mike Benbough-Jackson, 'Nation and Gender: St David, St David's Day and Masculinity during the Great War'
Simon Jenkins, 'Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.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, 1970-1990'
Elaine Titcombe, 'Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000'
Endnotes