Gender in Modern Welsh History
Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000
Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, Stephanie Ward, Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, Stephanie Ward
- 280 pages
- English
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Gender in Modern Welsh History
Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000
Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, Stephanie Ward, Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary, Stephanie Ward
About This Book
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.