Gender in Scottish History Since 1700

Abrams, L., Gordon, E., Simonton, D. and Yeo, E. (Eds.) (2006) Gender in Scottish History Since 1700. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748617616

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Gordon, Professor Eleanor
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Economic and Social History
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9780748617616

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