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Abstract
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. This collection of essays introduces readers to important historical and cultural figures and moments in queer life, and it addresses some of the urgent questions of queer belonging that face Wales today.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| List of Illustrations and Figures | xi | ||
| Notes on Contributors | xiii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| I. The Queer Past Before 1900 | 13 | ||
| 1. Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (Trans)nationalisms and the Welsh Bard | 15 | ||
| 2. ‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian Wales | 29 | ||
| 3. ‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-Eos | 45 | ||
| 4. From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representative Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth-century Welsh Literature | 65 | ||
| II. Placing Queer Wales After 1900 | 89 | ||
| 5. ‘A queer kind of fancy’: Women, Same-sex Desire and Nation in Welsh Literature | 91 | ||
| 6. ‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward Thomas | 115 | ||
| 7. Fairy-tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff and Jan Morris | 126 | ||
| III. Building Queer Wales Post-Devolution | 145 | ||
| 8. Lesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys:A Narrative Exploration | 147 | ||
| 9. Living in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in Wales | 159 | ||
| 10. Heb Addysg, Heb Ddawn (Without Education, Without Gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in Wales | 177 | ||
| IV. Performing Contemporary Queer Wales | 193 | ||
| 11. Omnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’s Torchwood | 195 | ||
| 12. Queer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid Wales | 209 | ||
| Notes | 224 | ||
| Select Bibliography | 259 | ||
| Index | 265 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |