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Author Davies, Russell, 1957- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYyP3KYTFCqqBkR9mKh3

Title Sex, sect and society : 'pain and pleasure' : a social history of Wales and the Welsh, 1870-1945 / Russell Davies.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 468 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Diolchiadau -- Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'To Begin at the Beginning'; 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 Faith8: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Enthrallment, Happiness and Imagination; Conclusion: A Few Selected Exits; Notes; Index; Back Cover
Summary This innovative study examines the spiritual and sexual experiences of the Welsh in the period 1870-1945.
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Subject Wales -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Wales -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
Wales -- Church history -- 19th century.
Wales -- Church history -- 20th century.
Sex -- Wales -- History -- 19th century.
Sex -- Wales -- History -- 20th century.
Dissenters, Religious -- Wales -- History -- 19th century.
Dissenters, Religious -- Wales -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Dissenters, Religious
National characteristics
Sex
Social conditions
Wales
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Church history
History
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