A comprehensive collection that includes over seventy Welsh-language and English-language writers, "Twentieth-Century Women s Writing in Wales" traces the history of Welsh women s writing over the past century. Covering forms as diverse as the novel, drama, travel writing, creative journalism, and contemporary poetry, this volume provides an important complement and corrective to current works of Welsh literary history that focus primarily on male authors, examining how Wales is conceived in literary works as a place in which both Welshness and womanhood can be lived and performed."
A comprehensive collection that includes over seventy Welsh-language and English-language writers, "Twentieth-Century Women s Writing in Wales" traces...
This much-needed history remembers those women in Wales who at the end of the nineteenth century and before World War I fought for and won their right to vote and to hold public office. Ursula Masson documents the countless efforts that these determined women made toward achieving equality, comparing and contrasting their agenda with that of their English counterparts and defining those aspects that were distinctly Welsh."
This much-needed history remembers those women in Wales who at the end of the nineteenth century and before World War I fought for and won their ri...
In 1999 Wales held the inaugural elections for the National Assembly for Wales, and nearly forty percent of those elected were women. Within four years, this proportion had increased to fifty percent, making the National Assembly for Wales the first legislative body in history to be equal parts men and women. With "Gender and Social Justice in Wales," editors Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies examine how that composition has affected the policies of the assembly over the past decade and assess the effects of these policies on social justice for women in Wales."
In 1999 Wales held the inaugural elections for the National Assembly for Wales, and nearly forty percent of those elected were women. Within four y...
The creation of devolved assemblies and parliaments for Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland in recent years has empowered governments in each country to promote equality of opportunity for their citizens. "Equality and Public Policy" explores the effects of that constitutional change in the fields of public policy and law, analyzing legal and policy approaches designed to end enduring patterns of inequality and discrimination in both countries.
The creation of devolved assemblies and parliaments for Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland in recent years has empowered governments in each countr...
This book explores the relationship between religion and identity in the lives of Welsh women today. Manon Ceridwen James looks at the recent history of religion in Wales, as well as women's writings and the way in which women have faced and continue to face unique pressures to be respectable.
This book explores the relationship between religion and identity in the lives of Welsh women today. Manon Ceridwen James looks at the recent history ...
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...
This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history. Beginning with sex work in the eighteenth...
