For Women, For Wales and For Liberalism

For Women, For Wales and For Liberalism
Author: Ursula Masson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0708322549

This book explores the neglected history of women who were active in Liberal politics, campaigning for women's rights, the vote, and a full role for women in Welsh public life, at the end of the nineteenth century, and before the First World War. The over-arching argument of the book is that Welsh women's Liberal politics was distinctive, in its attempt to integrate an understanding of Liberalism which they shared with their English counterparts, and which included the aim of full equality for women, with a distinctively Welsh political agenda, and constructions of Welsh national identity. These constructions sometimes included a positive view of women in the nation, but in times of political crisis redefined gender on a more reactionary model.

The Nations of Wales

The Nations of Wales
Author: M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783168390

Opens up a period in Welsh cultural history that has been almost completely overlooked First monograph to explore Welsh history between 1890-1914

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland
Author: Elizabeth Crawford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136010629

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a unique geographical dimension to debates on the suffrage campaign of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Through a study of the grass-roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants Including a thorough inventory of archival sources and extensive bibliographical and biographical references for each region, including the addresses of campaigners, this guide is essential for researchers, scholars, local historians and students alike.

For Women, For Wales and For Liberalism

For Women, For Wales and For Liberalism
Author: Ursula Masson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783163976

This book explores the neglected history of women who were active in Liberal politics, campaigning for women’s rights, the vote, and a full role for women in Welsh public life, at the end of the nineteenth century, and before the First World War. The over-arching argument of the book is that Welsh women’s Liberal politics was distinctive, in its attempt to integrate an understanding of Liberalism which they shared with their English counterparts, and which included the aim of full equality for women, with a distinctively Welsh political agenda, and constructions of Welsh national identity. These constructions sometimes included a positive view of women in the nation, but in times of political crisis redefined gender on a more reactionary model.

Women's Rights and 'womanly Duties'

Women's Rights and 'womanly Duties'
Author: Ursula Masson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Aberdare (Wales)
ISBN:

This edition of the minute book of the association sheds light on a rich period in the history of women's political activity, and contributes to both British and Welsh political history, in particular the history of women's party political organisation and the suffrage movement in the pre-militant years.

Why Wales Never Was

Why Wales Never Was
Author: Simon Brooks
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786830132

Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominant since the nineteenth century, are overturned. Originally a comment on Welsh acquiescence to Britishness at the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the book’s emphasis on the importance of European culture is a parable for Brexit times. Both deeply rooted in Welsh culture and European in scope, Why Wales Never Was brings together history, philosophy and politics in a way never tried before in Wales. First published in Welsh in 2015, Why Wales Never Was affirms the author’s reputation as one of the most radical writers in Wales today.