Skip to main content
Carole E Ballard
  • Lampeter Wales
  • 07854 821 764

Carole E Ballard

Trinity St Davids, AHAN, Department Member
My first essay on "Why did people in the European Middle Ages believe in witches; how did belief in witches fit with the other dominant ideologies of their time"
Taken from my first year, first ever essays in my Anthropology BA - 2009
From Campaigns to Conserves A study of Women’s Power as a social movement, concentrating on the politics of the Women’s Institute. This Dissertation investigates the opinions of members within the Women’s Institute in regards to the... more
From Campaigns to Conserves
A study of Women’s Power as a social movement, concentrating on the politics of the Women’s Institute.
This Dissertation investigates the opinions of members within the Women’s Institute in regards to the politics of the organisation and also a collection of data and observations from a fieldwork exercise.
Contrary to member and representatives opinions that the Women’s Institute is not a political organization.  This dissertation explains how politics is a very important part of the Women’s Institute, that identity and belonging is a key presence and it can be proved to be a political organisation and always has been. 
Using personal interaction, fieldwork and a questionnaire, data found, proved to be far more interesting and intriguing than expected and questionnaire opinions given contrary to actual activities within the last one hundred years. 
The Women’s Institute celebrates its one-hundredth centenary in the year two thousand and fifteen.


© 2014
Carole Elizabeth Ballard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Research Interests: