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‘Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’: Gypsy-Traveller womens perceptions of gender, culture and morality in the North of England CASEY, Rionach Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http: shura.shu.ac.uk/8924 This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publishers version if you wish to cite from it. Published version CASEY, Rionach (2014). ‘Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’: Gypsy-Traveller womens perceptions of gender, culture and morality in the North of England. Culture, Health Sexuality, 16 (7), 806-819. Repository use policy Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in SHURA to facilitate their private study or for non- commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http: shura.shu.ac.uk ‘Caravan Wives’ and ‘Decent Girls’’: Gypsy-Traveller Women’s Perceptions of Gender, Culture and Morality in the North of England 1 Abstract: This paper examines the beliefs and practices that constitute gender among Gypsy-Traveller women and then attempts to discern the consequences that flow from these beliefs and practices. It analyses gender ideology and expectations among these women and the shared investment in the moral identity attached to being a good Gypsy-Traveller wife. The paper argues that ‘Gypsy-Traveller woman’ cannot be understood as an identity that stands apart from gender and racial oppression. It is within this context that the tension between change and permanence in gender relations is played out. It argues that the maintenance of cultural taboos embodied and symbolise