Our Changing Land (eBook)

Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales

Dawn Mannay (Herausgeber)

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2016
352 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78316-885-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Our Changing Land reflects on changes in relation to issues of gender, class, poverty, politics, the environment, the media and the Welsh language in post-devolution Wales, and considers the future of the nation.

Autor

The edited collection is appropriate reading for undergraduates, master’s students and postgraduates; as well as researchers, practitioners, policy makers and readers with an interest in Wales and Welsh life.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
– Dawn Mannay
SECTION ONE - Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity
2. Devolved Voices: Welsh Women’s Writing post 1999
– Jane Aaron
3 Only inside the classroom? Young people’s use of the Welsh language in the school, community and peer group
- Non Geraint
4. Who should do the dishes now? Revisiting Gender and Housework in Contemporary Urban South Wales
- Dawn Mannay
SECTION TWO – Education, Labour Markets and Gender in Wales
5. ‘Placing young men’: The performance of young working-class masculinities in the S1outh Wales Valleys
- Michael R.M Ward
6. Re-Educating Rhian: Experiences of Working-class Mature Student Mothers
- Melanie Morgan
7. Private lives used for public work: Women Further Education teachers in Wales
- Jane Salisbury
8. From low-wage manufacturing industries to the low-wage service sector: the changing nature of women's employment in Wales
- Caroline Lloyd
9. Changes and continuities: Women in paid work in Wales 1994-2014
- Alison Parken
SECTION THREE – Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality
10. Class, Poverty and Politics in Devolved Wales
- Dave Adamson
11. Women and Policy-Making: Devolution, Civil Society and Political Representation
- Paul Chaney
12. The transformation of the media in Wales: technology and democracy
- Hugh Mackay
13. Wind Energy: Revisiting the Debate in Wales
- Karen Parkhill and Richard Cowell
14. Conclusion
- Dawn Mannay

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Gender Studies in Wales
• Reihe/Serie: Gender Studies in Wales
• Reihe/Serie: Gender Studies in Wales
• Verlagsort: Cardiff
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: changing • Class • Contemporary • Gender • Identity • Land • Our • revisiting • Wales
• ISBN-10: 1-78316-885-4 / 1783168854
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78316-885-9 / 9781783168859