Sex Sects and Society Pain and Pleasure A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 1870 1945 1st Edition by Russell Davies ISBN 1786832135 978-1786832139

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ISBN 10: 1786832135 

ISBN 13: 978-1786832139

Author: Russell Davies

In an extended account of national identity, this second volume of Pain and Pleasure provides the first detailed study of the sexual and spiritual life of Wales in the period 1870–1945. Russell Davies argues that although Wales and its people experienced a disenchantment of the spiritual world during this time, a sexual revolution also was taking place. This innovative study examines how advances in life expectancy and improvements in health were reflected in emotional life and, though the Welsh have been long regarded as emotionally repressed, it shows that they were in reality a free and fun-loving people to contrast the traditional emphasis upon hardship and hardscrabble experiences. Educational and entertaining, Sex, Sects and Society offers a detailed study of the contradictions and complexities of the Welsh national identity

Table of contents: 

1: ‘Dygwyl y Meirwon’ (Festival of the Dead): Death, Transcendence and Transience

2: The Citadel: Pain, Anxiety and Wellbeing

3: Going Gently into that Good Night: Desolation, Dispiritedness and Melancholy

4: Where, When, What Was Wales and who were the Welsh? Contentment, Disappointment and Embarrassment

5: ‘The Way of all Flesh’: Prudery, Passion and Perversion

6: Love in a Cold Climate: Fidelity, Friendship and Fellowship

7: Religion and Superstition: Fear, Foreboding and Faith

8: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Enthrallment, Happiness and Imagination

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