| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) |
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Gendering the agenda / Lynn Abrams -- Gender and Scottish identity / Esther Breitenbach and Lynn Abrams -- Women, gender, and politics / Sue Innes and Jane Rendall -- Religion / Callum G. Brown -- Education and learning / Lindy Moore -- Medicine, science, and the body / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Gender, the arts, and culture / Siân Reynolds -- Work, trade, and commerce / Deborah Simonton -- The family / Eleanor Gordon |
| Summary |
Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised and that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind. Each chapter engages with one key theme from Scottish historiography, asking what happens when women are added to the story and how the story changes when the meanings of gendered understandings and assumptions are probed. Addressing politics, culture, religion, science, education, work, the family and identity, Gender in Scottish History proposes an alternative reading of the Scottish past which is both inclusive and recognisable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Scotland -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Sex role
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118827
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Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abrams, Lynn, editor.
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| ISBN |
0748626395 |
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9780748626397 |
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9780748672172 |
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0748672176 |
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9786610501427 |
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6610501424 |
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1280501421 |
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9781280501425 |
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