Description: An in-depth study of the impact of gender in modern Welsh society.
This edited 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 antinuclear activism, the contributors examine how gender has been constructed, represented, performed, and experienced by men and women at different times and places throughout Wales's modern past.Brief description: Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex.
Review Quotes:
"Cutting-edge historical research is skilfully distilled into ten stimulating and eminently readable essays. This is an important collection that dissects and deepens understanding of gender and gender relations in Welsh society between 1750 and 2000."
-- "Angela V. John, President of Llafur, the Welsh People's History Society"