Women of the Rhondda Valleys Between the Wars
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Women of the Rhondda Valleys Between the Wars
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/049
Creator(s): Crook, Rosemary
Site Location(s): Subject - Rhondda, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales, United Kingdom( 51.65, -3.48333 )
Date(s): 1980
Size and medium: 96 unbound typed leaves; 2 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409945
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. study of the women of the Rhondda Valleys and their roles as wife, mother and neighbour, on both a practical level in terms of physical comfort and support, and on an abstract level in terms of psychological support. Subjects covered include cleanliness, order, finance, washing, cooking, bathing, meals, clothing, sleeping arrangements, treats and special occasions, outings and birthdays, pocket money, discipline and the Chapel, manners, chastity, religion, childbirth and birth control and transmission of domestic skills. The study is illustrated throughout with extracts from fieldwork tape recordings.
Appendices contain an interview plan, folkloristic material (household superstitions and beliefs, medical beliefs, pit superstitions and beliefs, nicknames) collected during fieldwork interviews, and biographies of the informants.
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