Gender studies, gender groups

During an age of extreme gender polarisation when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (1839-1916) from Llangrannog, better known by her bardic name Cranogwen, won high esteem as a poet, lecturer, journal editor, preacher and temperance campaigner.

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.

This is a new edition of David Painting's biography of Amy Dillwyn, first published in 1987.

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

The fantastic has been and is particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.

The women represented in this volume as both authors and protagonists exert power by resisting the social paradigms that govern how they 'should' behave - by thwarting expectations of typical 'feminine' conduct (whether in relation to female corporeality and sexuality) or by their (non)adherence to the institutions of marriage and motherhood.

Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.

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This edited book critically examines if and how Gender and Development can address the contemporary challenges of the 21st century, focusing on the perspectives of scholars and practitioners from Australia and the Pacific.

Winner of the Roland Mathias Award 2009.

A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman.

The fantastic has been and is particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism.

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers.

This edited book critically examines if and how Gender and Development can address the contemporary challenges of the 21st century, focusing on the perspectives of scholars and practitioners from Australia and the Pacific.

This book in the series Gender Studies in Wales uses representations of pregnancy and menstruation as a basis to interpret a wide range of Welsh fiction by women; a perspective of striking novelty in the context of contemporary Welsh.

The book subjects male characters in six south Wales novels written between 1936 and 2014 to detailed, gendered reading.

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugles comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India.

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.

This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades.

This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book.

Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century.

This book provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales.

Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of womens basketball in the United States.

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugles comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India.

The bold, inspiring, and empowering new book on the possibility of modern womanhood - helping you to ditch the labels, find your voice, and reclaim your confidence.

This rich interdisciplinary book brings significant and original insights to the study of Welsh identity and religion, as well as exploring the distinctive pressures that Welsh women face in their everyday lives.

An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928.

Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of womens basketball in the United States.

This edited collection examines Gothic works written by women authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a specific focus on the novels and chapbooks produced by less widely commercially and critically popular writers.

This book breaks new ground in the history of Welsh women's literature, by tracking the life and work of the two forgotten women from the countryside who made their mark on their communities, their society and their nation through their campaigns and literature.

Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh.

This thought-provoking book is a major examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender.

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales.

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.

La masiva presencia de mujeres durante el proceso de negociacion y desarme de las FARC-EP desafio los marcos interpretativos de la sociedad y la academia, puesto que nadie podia entender que hacian tantas mujeres alli.

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Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh.

This book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of storytelling and cultural adaptation, revealing how narratives can transform individual suffering into powerful acts of resistance and survival.

The relationship between nation and queer sexuality has long been a fraught one, for the sustaining myths of the former are often at odds with the needs of the latter.

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in Californias anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century.

Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media.

This illuminating volume sheds light on the religious women of medieval Wales, drawing on a wide range of sources from saints' lives and native poetry to holy wells and visual imagery.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of storytelling and cultural adaptation, revealing how narratives can transform individual suffering into powerful acts of resistance and survival.

This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma.

The works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903-93) are enjoying unprecedented attention from international scholars, writers, journalists, translators and film directors.

This innovative collection offers a reappraisal of gender as a category of analysis in modern Welsh history.