Our Changing Land

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The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive about Wales and Welshness in an interdisciplinary yet comprehensive manner. The core concepts of gender, class and identity are explored throughout the book, which presents twelve chapters in three distinct yet overlapping thematic sections: Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity, Education; Labour Markets and Gender in Wales; and Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality. The chapters explore the role of men and women in Wales and of Wales itself as a nation, an economy, and a centre of partially devolved governance, raising questions related to equality, policy and progression. The collection also features photographs, graphic art and poetic verse that both represent and extend the central arguments of the book.

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

Sujets

• Feminist Theory
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Feminism
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783168859
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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O U R C H A N G I N G L A N D

Gender Studies in Wales Astudiaethau Rhywedd yng Nghymru

Series Editors Jane Aaron, University of South Wales Brec’hed Piette, Bangor University Sian Rhiannon Williams, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Series Advisory Board Deirdre Beddoe, Emeritus Professor Mihangel Morgan, Aberystwyth University Teresa Rees, Cardiff University

The aim of this series is to îll a current gap in knowledge. As a number of historians, sociologists and literary critics have for some time been pointing out, there is a dearth of published research on the characteris- tics and effects of gender difference in Wales, both as it affected lives in the past and as it continues to shape present-day experience. Socially constructed concepts of masculine and feminine difference inuence every aspect of individuals’ lives; experiences in employment, in education, in culture and politics, as well as in personal relationships, are all shaped by them. Ethnic identities are also gendered; a country’s history affects its concepts of gender difference so that what is seen as appropriately ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ varies within different cultures. What is needed in the Welsh context is more detailed research on the ways in which gender difference has operated and continues to operate within Welsh societies. Accordingly, this interdisciplinary and bilingual series of volumes on Gender Studies in Wales, authored by academics who are leaders in their particular îelds of study, is designed to explore the diverse aspects of male and female identities in Wales, past and present. The series is bilingual, in the sense that some of its intended volumes will be in Welsh and some in English.

Also in series Huw Osborne –Queer Wales: The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales Alice Entwistle –Poetry, Geography, Gender: Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich –Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness

O U R C H A N G I N G L A N D

Revisting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales

Edited by

Dawn Mannay

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2016

© The Contributors, 2016

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ISBN e-ISBN

9781783168842 9781783168859

The right of the Contributors to be identiîed as authors of their contributions has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements

Introduction Dawn Mannay

I. Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity Hybrid Identityby KAOS – Song Lyrics

Devolved Voices: Welsh Women’s Writing Post 1999 Jane Aaron

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Only Inside the Classroom? Young People’s Use of the Welsh Language in the School, Community and Peer Group 43 Non Geraint

Who Should Do the Dishes Now? Revisiting Gender and Housework in Contemporary Urban South Wales Dawn Mannay

‘Placing young men’: The Performance of Young Working-class Masculinities in the South Wales Valleys Michael R. M. Ward

II. Education, Labour Markets and Gender in Wales Beautifulby Tasha Harvey – Song Lyrics

Re-educating Rhian: Experiences of Working-class Mature Student Mothers Melanie Morgan

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Private Lives Used for Public Work: Women Further Education Teachers in Wales Jane Salisbury

From Low-wage Manufacturing Industries to the Low-wage Service Sector: The Changing Nature of Women’s Employment in Wales Caroline Lloyd

Changes and Continuities: Women in Paid Work in Wales 1994–2014 Alison Parken

III. Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality Politricksby Jamie Feeney aka Sapien – Song Lyrics

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

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Chapter 2 Millennium Centre Poem, Gwyneth Lewis – by Ian Homer Chapter 3 School Students and Popular Literature – by Ian Homer Chapter 4 Who Does the Dishes? – by Ian Homer Chapter 5 A Post-industrial Welsh Landscape – by Ian Homer Chapter 6 Balancing Academic Study and Motherhood – by Ian Homer Chapter 7 Credentials and the Chameleon – by Ian Homer Chapter 8 The Clothing Industry – by Ian Homer Chapter 9 Paula at Eastmoors – by Ian Homer Chapter 10 Clocking Out, Hoover, Merthyr Tydîl – by Ian Homer Chapter 11 Don’t Attack Iraq – by Ian Homer Chapter 12 Dr Who – by Nathan Bond Chapter 13 No Way to Powys Pylons – by Ian Homer

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‘It’s not too bad with these irons they got now’ Time Manufacturing workforce jobs in Wales Annual levels of wind farm development in Wales Strategic search areas for large-scale onshore wind development

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Vignettes of the six women FE teachers and their ‘credentials’ 132 Employment rate in the UK and Wales 162 Highest level of qualiîcation held by working-age adults, UK and Wales 162 Employment rate UK and Wales, aged 16–64, and by gender within Wales 2004–14 179 Changes in employment proîle for Wales by sector, 1990–2020 182 Change in circulation, Trinity Mirror newspapers in Wales, 2013–14 243 Print losses and online gains, selected newspapers in Wales, 2012–13 244 Welsh broadcasters’ website users (weekly unique users, thousands), 2013–14 251 Summary of the reasons for support and opposition outlined in McKenzie Hedger (1994) 271 Participant responses to the question ‘How favourable or unfavourable are your overall opinions or impressions of the following energy sources for producing electricity currently?’ 273

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