Wondrous Women of Wales – Medi Jones-Jackson (Y Lolfa)
Engaging profiles of 26 inspirational women from Wales, including Shirley Bassey, Mary Quant, Menna Upadhyaya, Laura Ashley, Betsi Cadwaladr, Betty Campbell, Jade Jones and Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. Full of fun facts, puzzles and activities, as well as colourful cartoons by Telor Gwyn. A perfect gift for children under 11.
Causes in Common: Welsh Women and the Struggle for Social Democracy – Daryl Leeworthy (University of Wales Press)
The compelling and revealing story of women’s politics in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in opposition to slavery, through to the construction of the labour movement in the twentieth century, and on to the more recent demands for sexual liberation and LGBTQ+ rights.
Painting the Beauty Queens Orange – Edited by Rhian E. Jones (Honno)
The ’70s wasn’t all glam rock and flares, punk and pogo-ing … In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived through the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and carve out your place amidst the winter of discontent, the scorching summer of ’76 and the rise of Thatcherism. These stories of ambition and adventure, motherhood and marriage, are heart-breaking, humorous, and honest.
Seventy Years of Struggle and Achievement: Life Stories of Ethnic Minority Women Living in Wales – Edited and selected by Meena Upadhyaya, Kirsten Lavine and Chris Weedon (Parthian Books)
The stories of women from Wales’ minority communities are seldom heard. This book comprises the life stories of forty Black Asian Minority Ethnic women that were finalists/winners for the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Award (2011–2019). Their life experiences are a fundamental part of the history of multi-ethnic Wales. Individual stories testify both to the struggle and to the remarkable contribution that minority women have made to the many sectors of Welsh society.
Hon: Artistiaid Benywaidd yng Nghymru / Women Artists in Wales 2022 – Edited by Christine Kinsey (H’mm Foundation)
Hon celebrates 10 women artists, who share their own perceptions and their particular way of viewing Wales through their words and artworks in a range of media, from painting, ceramic and textiles to sculpture and video. The artists included are Marian Delyth, Sadia Pineda Hameed, Angharad Pearce Jones, Julia Griffiths Jones, Christine Kinsey, Sian Parri, Sarah Rhys, Catrin Webster, Sarah Williams and Sarah Younan.
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