Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000. This item is unavailable.Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000

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.

Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex.<br /><br />Paul O'Leary is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.<br /><br />Stephanie Ward is a senior lecturer in modern Welsh history at Cardiff University.