Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex.Paul O’Leary is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.Stephanie Ward is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsForewordIntroductionAngela Muir, ‘Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830’Marion Löffler, ‘Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793–1805’Paul O’Leary, ‘Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914’Steven Thompson, ‘“Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?’ Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939’Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, ‘Spaces and Places of Women’s Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914’Mike Benbough-Jackson, ‘Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War’Simon Jenkins, ‘Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.1945’Stephanie Ward, ‘Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales’Jay Rees, ‘“Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn’t like it”: Women’s Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990’Elaine Titcombe, ‘Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000’Endnotes

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.

Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex.Paul O’Leary is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.Stephanie Ward is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsForewordIntroductionAngela Muir, ‘Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830’Marion Löffler, ‘Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793–1805’Paul O’Leary, ‘Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914’Steven Thompson, ‘“Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?’ Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939’Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, ‘Spaces and Places of Women’s Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914’Mike Benbough-Jackson, ‘Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War’Simon Jenkins, ‘Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.1945’Stephanie Ward, ‘Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales’Jay Rees, ‘“Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn’t like it”: Women’s Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990’Elaine Titcombe, ‘Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000’Endnotes

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.

Beth Jenkins is a Visiting Fellow and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex.Paul O’Leary is the Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.Stephanie Ward is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsForewordIntroductionAngela Muir, ‘Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830’Marion Löffler, ‘Family Matters: War-Time Discourses on Women in Wales, 1793–1805’Paul O’Leary, ‘Masks and Matter: Mining Masculinities in the South Wales Coalfield, 1870-1914’Steven Thompson, ‘“Can You Look in the Mirror and Say, I See a Man?’ Masculinity and the Labour Movement in South Wales, c.1870-1939’Neil Evans and Beth Jenkins, ‘Spaces and Places of Women’s Social Movements in Wales, 1890-1914’Mike Benbough-Jackson, ‘Nation and Gender: St David, St David’s Day and Masculinity during the Great War’Simon Jenkins, ‘Exploring Race and Gender in Cardiff, c.1900-c.1945’Stephanie Ward, ‘Heroic Housewives: Political Worlds, Domesticity and the Welsh Mam in Interwar Wales’Jay Rees, ‘“Beware you free, emancipated girls, your warden wouldn’t like it”: Women’s Activism at Swansea University, 1970-1990’Elaine Titcombe, ‘Reflections of gender in anti-nuclear politics in Wales 1970-2000’Endnotes

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.