Rocking the Boat - Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990
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Rocking the Boat - Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990 by Angela V John
This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Cyngor Llyfrau CymruAngela V. John is a historian and biographer who has published extensively on women’s and gender history in Britain. She held the chair in History at the University of Greenwich and is now an honorary professor at Swansea University. She edited Our Mothers’ Land, a pioneering collection of essays on Welsh women’s history, and Unequal Opportunities, a volume about women’s employment opportunities in England between 1800 and 1918. She co-edited (with Claire Eustance) The Men’s Share? which examined male support for women’s suffrage and has published the life of Lady Charlotte Guest (with Revel Guest), as well as biographies of Elizabeth Robins, Henry Nevinson, Evelyn Sharp and Lady Rhondda. Her most recent book, is about her hometown and entitled The Actors’ Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912109500 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912109506 |
| Title | Rocking the Boat - Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990 |
| Author | Angela V John |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2018-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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