Our Changing Land reflects on changes in relation to issues of gender, class, poverty, politics, the environment, the media and the Welsh language in post-devolution Wales, and considers the future of the nation.

1. Introduction – Dawn Mannay SECTION ONE - Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity 2. Devolved Voices: Welsh Women’s Writing post 1999 – Jane Aaron 3 Only inside the classroom? Young people’s use of the Welsh language in the school, community and peer group - Non Geraint 4. Who should do the dishes now? Revisiting Gender and Housework in Contemporary Urban South Wales - Dawn Mannay SECTION TWO – Education, Labour Markets and Gender in Wales 5. ‘Placing young men’: The performance of young working-class masculinities in the S1outh Wales Valleys - Michael R.M Ward 6. Re-Educating Rhian: Experiences of Working-class Mature Student Mothers - Melanie Morgan 7. Private lives used for public work: Women Further Education teachers in Wales - Jane Salisbury 8. From low-wage manufacturing industries to the low-wage service sector: the changing nature of women's employment in Wales - Caroline Lloyd 9. Changes and continuities: Women in paid work in Wales 1994-2014 - Alison Parken SECTION THREE – Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality 10. Class, Poverty and Politics in Devolved Wales - Dave Adamson 11. Women and Policy-Making: Devolution, Civil Society and Political Representation - Paul Chaney 12. The transformation of the media in Wales: technology and democracy - Hugh Mackay 13. Wind Energy: Revisiting the Debate in Wales - Karen Parkhill and Richard Cowell 14. Conclusion - Dawn Mannay

Dawn Mannay is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, Wales. She employs creative methods in her work with diverse communities, and her research interests include gender, class and identity.