Queer Wales

Academic: Scholars and university students, both undergraduate and graduate, though many of the chapters are highly accessible to a general adult reader with an interest in the subject.

• I.The Queer Past Before 1900Queer Loss: Felicia Hemans, (trans)nationalism, and the Welsh BardDaniel Hannah‘Gender difference is nothing’: Cranogwen and Victorian WalesJane Aaron‘Please don’t whip me this time’: The Passions of George Powell of Nant-EosHarry HeuserFrom Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian: Representitive Examples of Cadi/Queer Life from Medieval to Twentieth Century Welsh LiteratureMihangel MorganII.Placing Queer Wales after 1900 ‘A queer kind of fancy’: women, same-sex desire, and nation in Welsh literatureKirsti Bohata‘Not friends / But fellows in a union that ends’: Associations of Welshness and Non-heteronormativity in Edward ThomasAndrew WebbFairy Tale Drag and the Transgender Nation in Rhys Davies, Erica Wooff, and Jan Morris.Huw OsborneIII.Building Queer Wales Post-DevolutionLesbian Motherhood in the South Wales Valleys: A Narrative ExplorationAlys EinionLiving in Fear: Homophobic Hate Crime in WalesMatthew Williams and Jasmin TregidgaHeb addysg, heb ddawn (Without education, without gift): LGBTQ Youth in Educational Settings in WalesJohn Sam JonesIV.Performing Contemporary Queer WalesOmnisexuality and the City: Exploring National and Sexual Identity through BBC Wales’ TorchwoodRebecca Williams and Ruth McElroyQueer/Welsh and Welsh/Queer: Performing Hybrid WalesStephen Greer