(Ebook) Sex, Sects and Society: ’Pain and Pleasure’: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945 by Russell Davies ISBN 9781786832139, 1786832135

(Ebook) Sex, Sects and Society: ’Pain and Pleasure’: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945 by Russell Davies ISBN 9781786832139, 1786832135

In an extended account of national identity, this second volume ofPain and Pleasureprovides 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 Societyoffers a detailed study of the contradictions and complexities of the Welsh national identity.