You are warmly invited to the launch of the book series Gender Studies in Wales in the Glamorgan Business Centre on Saturday 27th October 2007 at 2.00 pm.
A number of editors and contributors to the volume will be talking about their books and their hopes for the series:
Launching the New Series / Gender Studies in Wales
Saturday 27th October 2007 at 2.00 p.m./
Programme of the afternoon’s events
2.00
Arrivals and refreshments (tea, coffee, Welsh cakes)
2.15-2.20
Brec’hed Piette welcomes the audience and gives a brief introduction to the series, and to its Sociology strand in particular.
2.20-2.30
Paul Chaney, University of Cardiff, talks of his contracted volume for the series Equality and Public Policy: Wales in Comparative Focus
2.30-2.40
Nickie Charles, University of Warwick, talks of Charlotte Aull Davies (University of Swansea) and her contracted volume for the series Gender and Social Justice in Wales
2.40-2.50
Sian Rhiannon Williams, UWIC, introduces the History strand of the series, making particular reference to Ursula’s and her suffragette volume
2.50-3.00
Ursula Masson, University of Glamorgan, talks of her contracted volume for the series ‘For Women, for Wales, for Liberalism’?: Women and Liberal Politics in Wales
c.1880-1914
3.00-3.10
Jane Aaron introduces the Literature strand of the series, making particular reference to her published volume Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales
3.10-3.20
Katie Gramich, University of Cardiff, talks of her published volume Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales
3.20-3.30
Sarah Prescott, University of Aberystwyth, talks of her contracted volume for the series The Cambrian Muses: Women Writers and Wales, 1600-1800
Chair asks for questions and comments from the floor, and concludes the formal part of the meeting any time between 3.40 and 4.00
Series Editors: Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan; Brec’hed Piette, Bangor University; Sian Rhiannon Williams, UWIC
The aim of this series is to fill 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 characteristics 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 influence 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 series of volumes on Gender Studies in Wales, authored by academics who are currently leaders in their particular fields of study, is designed to explore the diverse aspects of male and female identities in Wales, past and present.
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Mae hunaniaethau cenedlaethol hefyd yn rhyweddol; mae hanes cenedl yn effeithio ar ei chysyniadau o wahaniaethau rhyweddol fel bod yr hyn a ganfyddir yn briodol fel ‘gwrywaidd’ neu ‘benywaidd’ yn amrywio o fewn gwahanol ddiwylliannau cenedlaethol.
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Yn unol â hynny, mae’r gyfres ryngddisgyblaethol hon ar Astudiaethau Rhywedd yng Nghymru, a ysgrifennwyd gan academyddion sy’n arweinwyr cyfoes yn eu meysydd o astudiaeth, wedi ei chynllunio ar gyfer archwilio’r agweddau o hunaniaethau gwryw a benyw yng Nghymru, gynt a nawr.
Mae’r gyfres yn anelu at gynnal fframwaith rhyngddisgyblaethol gan fod dimensiynau cymharol gyfyng y ffrâm a osodir gan ethnigrwydd yn yr achos hwn yn gwneud ymdriniaethau rhyngddisgyblaethol yn fwy dichonadwy.
Credwn hefyd, lle mae’r fath ymchwiliad yn ddichonadwy, ei bod yn dal yn ffaith drwy chwalu’r rhaniadau confensiynol - ond mympwyol - o ddisgyblaethau academaidd y gellir datgelu darluniau llawnach o fywydau dynion a menywod.
Ni fydd pob teitl a gynhwysir yn y gyfres yn cynnwys elfen ryngddisgyblaethol ond disgwyliwn i’r gyfres fel cyfanwaith elwa o’i dimensiwn rhyngddisgyblaethol cyffredinol.
Bydd i’r gyfres hefyd ddimensiwn dwyieithog a bydd yn cynnwys teitlau Cymraeg yn ogystal â rhai Saesneg.
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