Gender in Modern Welsh History : Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 To 2000 / edited by Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, and Stephanie Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Beth, editor.

O'Leary, Paul, editor.

Ward, Stephanie, editor.

Series:

Gender studies in Wales.

Gender Studies in Wales Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femininity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Foreword

1 Introduction

2 Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c.1750-1830

3 Family Matters: War-time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793-1805

4 Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914

5 'Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?' Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939

6 Spaces and Places of Women's Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914

7 Nation and Gender: St David, St David's Day and Masculinity during the Great War

8 Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.1945

9 Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales

10 'Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn't like it': Women's Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990

11 Reflections of Gender in Anti-nuclear Politics in Wales, 1970-2000

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jenkins, Beth Gender in Modern Welsh History

ISBN:

9781837720804

1837720800

OCLC:

1409663152