Angela V. John Distributed for University of Wales Press

214 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 1991, 2011
Gender Studies in Wales
Paper $25.00 ISBN: 9780708323403 Published May 2011 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

Originally published in 1991, and made available once again in this new edition, Our Mothers’ Landhad been a pioneering text in the then-nascent field of Welsh women’s history. Ranging widely across both time and place, the book explores the many different lifestyles of Welsh women and also addresses the idealized image of Welsh women presented in periodicals, as well as the transgressive actions of advocates for suffrage. List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Another Chronology
Two Decades of Development: Introduction to the New Edition
Introduction to the 1991 Edition

1. Women, Community and Collective Action: The Ceffyl Pren Tradition
Rosemary A. N. Jones
2. Beyond Paternalism: The Ironmaster’s Wife in the Industrial Community
3. The True ‘Cymraes’: Images of Women in Women’s Nineteenth-Century Welsh Periodicals
Sian Rhiannon Williams
4. ‘Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night’? Women and Suicide in Carmarthenshire, c. 1860–1920
Russell Davies
5. Counting the Cost of Coal: Women’s Lives in the Rhondda, 1881–1911
Dot Jones
6. From Temperance to Suffrage?
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
7. ‘The Petty Antics of the Bell-Ringing Boisterous Band’? The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1890-1918
Kay Cook and Neil Evans
8. Munitionettes, Maids and Mams: Women in Wales, 1914–1939
Deirdre Beddoe

Review Quotes
“Chapter after highly readable chapter brings vividly to life the struggles of Welsh women to gain a modicum of control over narrowly circumscribed existences.”
Gender & History
“This book . . . makes important inroads in unpacking the specific social, economic and cultural factors pertaining to women’s lives within Welsh society. . . . The essays are diverse and highly readable.”
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