Our Mothers' Land

Angela John

Description

This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women's history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women's community sanctions and the perils facing collier's wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters' wives. They also tackle the idealised images of respectable Welsh women in periodicals and the tragic reality of those who took their own lives as well as showing us the transgressive actions of suffrage rebels. They examine how women carved out space within movements such as temperance and track the fluctuating fortunes of women's employment and domestic life from the Great War to the eve of the Second World War. This volume makes available once more a book that has become a classic in its field and a vital part of the historiography of modern Wales. This expanded edition also brings us up to date. It reveals the research and publications of the last two decades and comments upon the extent to which Wales has moved beyond being the familiar 'land of our fathers'. Written in a lively and accessible style, it nevertheless draws upon a wealth of research and expertise and should appeal to both the academic community and to a much wider readership.

Sujets

• Feminist Theory
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• 20th century
• Feminism
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780708323410
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Gender Studies in Wales

Our Mothers’ Land Chapters in Welsh Women’s History, 1830–1939

edited by Angela V. John

University of Wales Press

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O U R M O T H E R S ’ L A N D

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Our Mother’s Land

Gender Studies in Wales Astudiaethau Rhywedd yng Nghymru

Series Editors Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan Brec’hed Piette, Bangor University Sian Rhiannon Williams, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

Series Advisory Board Deirdre Beddoe, Emeritus Professor Mihangel Morgan, Aberystwyth University Teresa Rees, Cardiff University

The aim of this series is to fill a current gap in knowledge. As a number of historians, sociologists and literary critics have for some time been pointing out, there is a dearth of published research on the character- istics and effects of gender difference in Wales, both as it affected lives in the past and as it continues to shape present-day experience. Socially constructed concepts of masculine and feminine difference influence every aspect of individuals’ lives; experiences in employment, in edu- cation, in culture and politics, as well as in personal relationships, are all shaped by them. Ethnic identities are also gendered; a country’s history affects its concepts of gender difference so that what is seen as appro- priately ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ varies within different cultures. What is needed in the Welsh context is more detailed research on the ways in which gender difference has operated and continues to operate within Welsh societies. Accordingly, this interdisciplinary and bilingual series of volumes on Gender Studies in Wales, authored by academics who are leaders in their particular fields of study, is designed to explore the diverse aspects of male and female identities in Wales, past and present. The series is bilingual, in the sense that some of its intended volumes will be in Welsh and some in English.

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OUR MOTHERS’ LAND

CHAPTERS IN WELSH WOMEN’S HISTORY, 1830–1939

Edited by

Angela V. John

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2011

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© The Contributors, 1991

Our Mother’s Land

First published, 1991 New edition with updated introduction, 2011

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Our Mothers’ land : chapters in Welsh women’s history 1830–1939. I. John, Angela V. 305.4209429

ISBN 978-0-7083-2340-3 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2341-0

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff, CF10 4UP.

The right of the Contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed in Wales by Dinefwr Press, Llandybïe

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In memory of the Welsh writer

Menna Gallie 1919–1990

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the following for permission to use their work/records: the Masters and Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge, the archivists at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Glamorgan Record Office, Powys Record Office, the Imperial War Museum, Viscount Wimborne, Philip N. Jones, Hywel Francis, Ann Williams, Ryland Wallace, Thalia Campbell, Diana Atkinson and the editors of the journalLlafuran earlier Welsh (where version of Sian Rhiannon Williams’s article originally appeared). Thanks also go to members of Llafur (The Welsh People’s History Society) for their support via a day school. We are especially grateful to Susan Jenkins and Ceinwen Jones at the University of Wales Press. For this new edition we are indebted to Sarah Lewis and the team at the Press and the editors of the Gender Studies in Wales series. The editor would like to thank the reader for constructive comments and all the contributors for being so co-operative and committed. Photographs appear by kind permission of the following: in chapters 1, 3, 6, 7 the National Library of Wales, in chapter 2 the late John Owen, in chapter 4 Aberystwyth University, in chapter 5 the National Museum of Wales, in chapter 8 the Imperial War Museum.

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