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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List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Angela Muir, Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830
Marion Löffler, Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales,
17931805
Paul OLeary, 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 Womens Social Movements
in Wales, 1890-1914
Mike Benbough-Jackson, Nation and Gender: St David, St Davids 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 wouldnt like
it: Womens Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990
Elaine Titcombe, Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales
1970-2000
Endnotes
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