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Women, Identity and Religion in Wales is the first comprehensive study of its kind from a present-day perspective. It brings significant and original insights to an understanding of Welsh identity and religion, as well as exploring the distinctive pressures that women in Wales face in their everyday lives. The author provides a qualitatively rich account of the religious and sociological context and interweaves her own experience with that of a number...
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Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women's life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman - in family life, education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence - both enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The...
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Molly Redwine, a loyal wife and mother. Can a person be too loyal? Perhaps, for when her husband announces that he is leaving her for a younger woman, Molly's whole life is completely and irrevocably shattered. Certainly not an unexpected reaction, except that Molly does not have anything else. She was her family. Her situation is unfortunately and intensely exacerbated by the sudden death of her mother, and she naturally begins to feel bitter and...