Masculine histories: Gender and the social history of modern wales

Welsh History Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 252-277

  O'Leary, Paul ^a  

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DOI: 10.16922/whr.22.2.4     Document Type: Article

References (103)

1. Paul O'Leary, Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 (Cardiff, 2000);
2. See Neil Evans, 'Writing the social history of modern Wales: approaches, achievements and problems', Social History, 17 (3) (1992), 479-92;
3. Geraint H. Jenkins, 'Clio and Wales: Welsh remembrancers and historical writing, 1751-2001', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, n.s., 8 (2002), 119-36.
4. R. Merfyn Jones, The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874-1922 (Cardiff, 1981);
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6. See also David Smith (ed.), A People and a Proletariat: Essays in the History of Wales, 1780-1980 (London, 1980).
7. Dai Smith, Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales (Cardiff, 1993);
8. Gareth Williams, 1905 and All That: Essays on Rugby Football, Sport and Welsh Society (Llandysul, 1991);
9. idem, Valleys of Song: Music and Society in Wales, 1840-1914 (Cardiff, 1998).
10. Deirdre Beddoe, 'Towards a Welsh women's history', Llafur, 3 (2) (1981), 32-8;
11. L. J. Williams and Dot Jones, 'Women's work in nineteenth-century Wales', Llafur, 3 (3) (1982), 20-32;
12. Rosemary Crooks, 'Tidy women: women in the Rhondda between the wars', Oral History, 10 (2) (1982), 40-57;
13. Gwyn A. Williams, 'Women workers in Wales, 1968-82', ante, 11 (4) (1983), 530-48;
14. and articles by Angela V. John, Sian Rhiannon Williams and Dot Jones in Llafur, 4 (1) (1984).
15. For example, W. Gareth Evans, Education and Female Emancipation: The Welsh Experience (Cardiff, 1990);
16. Angela V. John (ed.), Our Mothers' Land: Essays in Welsh Women's History, 1800-1939 (Cardiff, 1991);
17. Deirdre Beddoe, Out of the Shadows: A History of Women in Twentieth-Century Wales (Cardiff, 2000);
18. John (ed.), Our Mothers' Land, unnumbered pages preceding die 'Introduction'.
19. Robert Shoemaker and Mary Vincent, 'Gender history: the evolution of a concept', in Shoemaker and Vincent (eds), Gender and History in Western Europe (London, 1998), pp. 1-20.
20. Andy Croll, '"People's remembrancers" in a post-modern age: contemplating the non-crisis of Welsh labour history', Llafur, 8 (1) (2000), 5-18;
21. idem, 'Holding onto history: modern Welsh historians and the challenge of postmodernism', Journal of Contemporary History, 38 (2) (2003), 323-32.
22. See, for example, Andy Croll, Civilizing the Urban: Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, c. 1870-1914 (Cardiff, 2000).
23. and Julie Light, 'Manufacturing the past - the representation of mining communities in history, literature and heritage: fantasies of a world that never was', Llafur, 8 (1) (2000), 19-32.
24. Jones, The North Wales Quarrymen, ch. 8;
25. Alun Burge, 'In search of Harry Blount: scabbing between the wars in one south Wales community', Llafur, 6 (3) (1994), 58-69;
26. Dafydd Roberts, 'Y deryn nos a'i deithiau: diwylliant derbyniol chwarelwyr Gwynedd', in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl HI (Llandysul, 1988), pp. 151-78;
27. See, for example, Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (London, 1987);
28. Theodore Koditschek, 'The gendering of the British working class', Gender and History, 9 (1997), 333-63.
29. For a sampler, see Shoemaker and Vincent (eds), Gender and History in Western Europe.
30. Alice Kessler-Harris, 'What is gender history now?', in David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now? (Basingstoke, 2002), p. 99.
31. For example, Kerry Davies, 'Sexing the mind: women, gender and madness in nineteenth-century Welsh asylums', Llafur, 7 (1) (1996), 29-40;
32. W. Gareth Evans, 'The gendering of the elementary and secondary school curriculum in Victorian and early twentieth century Wales', in Sandra Betts (ed.), Our Daughters' Land: Past and Present (Cardiff, 1996), pp. 80-102;
33. Jodie Kreider, 'Degraded and benighted: gendered constructions of Wales in the Empire c. 1847', in the on-line North American Journal of Welsh Studies, 2 (1) (2002), http://www2.bc.edu/ellisjg/Kreider.html
34. Sonya O. Rose, Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England (Los Angeles, 1992), pp. 13-14.
35. Kessler-Harris, 'What is gender history now?', p. 99.
36. Michael Roberts, '"More prone to be idle and riotous than the English"? Attitudes to male behaviour in early modern Wales', in Simone Clark and Michael Roberts (eds), Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales (Cardiff, 2000), pp. 259-90.
37. Roberts, '"More prone to be idle and riotous than the English"?', p. 263;
38. Joanna Bourke, 'Masculinity, men's bodies and the Great War', History Today (February 1996), 8;
39. Paul Stigant, 'Foreword: Whose history?', in Claire Eustance and Angela V. John (eds), The Men's Share? Masculinities, Male Support and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920 (London, 1997), p. xvii.
40. John Tosh, 'What should historians do with masculinity? Reflections on nineteenth-century Britain', History Workshop Journal, 38 (1994), 180.
41. John Tosh, A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (London, 1999);
42. G. L. Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (Oxford, 1996).
43. Julie Light, '"Of inestimable value to the town and district"? A study of the urban middle classes in south Wales, with particular reference to Pontypool, Bridgend and Penarth, c. 1850-1890' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, 2003);
44. Louise Miskell, Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1850 (forthcoming). The forthcoming research of Jen Llywelyn on the pacifist George M. LI. Davies emphasizes the tensions engendered by middle-class ideals of'manliness'.
45. Joanna Bourke, Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity (London, 1994);
46. Ruth A. Frager, 'Labour history and the interlocking hierarchies of class, ethnicity and gender: a Canadian perspective', International Review of Social History, 44 (1999), 217-47;
47. Rose, Limited Livelihoods.
48. Tosh, 'What should historians do with masculinity?'.
49. For example, David Jenkins, The Agricultural Community in South-West Wales at the turn of the Twentieth Century (Cardiff, 1971), chs 5-7;
50. Roy Nash, 'Family and economic structure in nineteenth-century Wales: Llangernyw and Gwytherin in 1871', ante, 11 (4) (1982), 135-49.
51. André Poulin, 'La famille ouvriére dans une communauté miniére du pays de Galles: Treherbert, 1861-1891' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Montreal, 1996);
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53. O'Leary, Immigration and Integration, pp. 85-6, 117-19;
54. Beddoe, Out of the Shadows, pp. 19-20, 87-9, 95-6, 176-8;
55. Russell Davies, Secret Sins: Sex and Violence in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920 (Cardiff, 1996);
56. Jill Barber, '"Stolen goods": the sexual harassment of female servants in west Wales during the nineteenth century', Rural History, 4 (2) (1993), 123-36;
57. White and Williams (eds), Struggle or Starve, pp. 74-6.
58. Neil Evans,' "South Wales has been roused as never before": marching against the Means Test, 1934-1936', in Howell and Morgan (eds), Crime, Protest and Police in Modern British Society, pp. 195-7.
59. Dot Jones, 'Counting the cost of coal: women's lives in the Rhondda, 1881-1911', in John (ed.), Our Mothers' Land, pp. 109-34;
60. Neil Evans and Dot Jones, 'A blessing for the miner's wife: the campaign for pithead baths in the south Wales coalfield, 1908-1950', Llafur, 6 (3) (1994), 5-28.
61. Quoted in Light,' "Of inestimable value...', p. 252.
62. Paul O'Leary, 'Skill and the workplace in an industrial economy: the Irish in south Wales', in Belchem and Tenfelde (eds), Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective, pp. 57-68.
63. Christopher Baggs,' "Well done Cymmer workmen!" The Cymmer Collieries' workmen's library, 1893-1920', Llafur, 5 (3) (1990), 21.
64. See also Hywel Francis, 'The origins of the South Wales Miners' Library', History Workshop Journal, 2 (1976), 183-205.
65. idem, 'The cult of respectability and the Irish in mid-nineteenth century Wales', in idem (ed.), Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool, 2004), pp. 119-38.
66. Evans,' "South Wales has been roused as never before"', pp. 193-4.
67. Gareth Stedman Jones, 'Working-class culture and working-class politics', Journal of Social History, 7 (1974), 475.
68. On this ideology in Wales, see Rosemary Jones, 'Separate spheres? Women, language and respectability in Victorian Wales', in Geraint H.Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language and its Social Domains, 1801-1911 (Cardiff, 2000), pp. 177-213;
69. Sian Rhiannon Williams, 'Y Frythones: portread cyfnodolion merched y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg o Gymraes yr oes', Llafur, 4 (1) (1984), 43-56;
70. Jiirgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass., 1989);
71. Craig Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, Mass., 1992);
72. Jeff Weintraub and Krishnan Kumar (eds), Public and Private in Thought and Practice (Chicago, 1997).
73. Tosh, 'Hegemonic masculinity and the history of gender', in Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh (eds), Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (Manchester, 2004), pp. 41-58.
74. Dudink, Hagemann and Tosh (eds), Masculinities in Politics and War, passim.
75. Jane Rendall, 'The citizenship of women and the Reform Act of 1867', in Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867 (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 121-2.
76. Ryland Wallace, Organise! Organise! Organise! A Study of Reform Agitations in Wales, 1840-1886 (Cardiff, 1991), pp. 158-83.
77. Kathleen Canning and Sonya O. Rose, 'Gender, citizenship and subjectivity: some historical and theoretical considerations', Gender and History, 13 (3) (2001), 427-43.
78. Hywel Francis,' "Say nothing and leave in the middle of the night": the Spanish Civil War revisited', History Workshop Journal, 32 (1991), 69-76.
79. E. G. Millward (ed.)) Ceinion y Gán: Detholiad o Ganeuon Poblogaidd Oes Victoria (Llandysul, 1983), p. xxvi.
80. Millward, Ceinion y Gán, p. 97.
81. Hugh Cunningham, The Volunteer Force:A Social and Political History, 1859-1908 (London, 1975), p. 42.
82. For example, K. O. Morgan, Rebirth of a Nation: Wales, 1880-1980 (Oxford, 1980);
83. Gwyn A.Williams, When zvas Wales? A History of the Welsh (London, 1985).
84. Peter Lord, Imaging the Nation (Cardiff, 2000).
85. See also Ida Blom et al. (eds), Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2000);
86. Andrew Parker et al. (eds), Nationalism and Sexualities (London, 1992);
87. G. L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe (Madison, 1985).
88. See Paul O'Leary, 'The languages of patriotism in mid-nineteenth-century Wales', in Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language and its Social Domains, pp. 533-60.
89. cf. Patrick F. McDevitt, 'Muscular Catholicism: nationalism, masculinity and Gaelic team sports, 1884-1916', Gender and History, 9 (2) (1997), 262-84.
90. Chris Williams, Capitalism, Community and Conflict: The South Wales Coalfield, 1898-1947 (Cardiff, 1998), p. 8. However, see Deborah James,' "Drunk and riotous in Pontypridd": women, the police courts and the press in south Wales coalfield society, 1889-1914', Llafur, 8 (3) (2002), 5-12;
91. Hywel Teifi Edwards, Arwr Glew Erzvau'r Glo: Delweddy Glöwr yn Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, 1850-1950 (Llandysul, 1994);
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93. See Jane Aaron, 'Finding a voice in two tongues: gender and colonization', in Jane Aaron et al. (eds), Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Idea of Women in Wales (Cardiff, 1994), pp. 183-98;
94. The repertoires of male and communal violence are obvious candidates for study. See Davies, Secret Sins; Williams, Valleys of Song, ch. 9.
95. Glanmor Williams, 'Local and national history in Wales', ante, 5 (1) (1970), 61.
96. Gareth Elwyn Jones, Modern Wales: A Concise History (Cambridge, 1984);
97. Williams, When was Wales?; John Davies, A History of Wales (London, 1993);
98. Jones and Smith (eds), The People of Wales.
99. Michael Roberts, 'Another letter from a far country: the prehistory of labour, or the history of work in pre-industrial Wales', Llafur, 5 (2) (1989), 93-106;
100. idem, 'The empty ladder: work and its meanings in early modern Cardiganshire', Llafur, 6 (4) (1995), 9-29;
101. Sharon Howard, 'Riotous community: crowds, politics and society in Wales, c. 1700-1840', ante, 20 (4) (2001), 656-86.
102. Williams, Was Wales Industrialised?, pp. 14-36.
103. Smith, Wales! Wales?, p. 1.