Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales

by Jane Aaron (Editor), Teresa Rees (Editor), Sandra Betts (Editor)

Women's lives in Wales are changing dramatically. Transformations in the family, in the workplace, in culture and in politics are all contributing to the forging of new identities. Yet the major public images of Wales remain fixed in the past, male constructions of a masculine Wales. The richly diversified pattern of Welsh women's experience is still largely unrecorded and unexplored. Through a combination of researched essays and personal statements, this book aims to counter that neglect. Its contributors examine women in the home and in education, training and paid work, in rural and urban life, in English-speaking and Welsh-speaking contexts, in agriculture and in politics, in religion and the arts, in schools and in old age.

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2004

About the author

Jane Rhiannon Aaron is a former Professor of English at the University of Glamorgan and has published extensively on Welsh literature and the writings of Welsh women.