Gender in Scottish History Since 1700

Name: Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
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ISBN: 9780748617616

ISBN-10: 0748617612

ISBN-13: 9780748617616

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lynn Abrams, Eleanor Gordon, Deborah Simonton, Eileen Yeo

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This book offers gendered perspectives on the main themes in Scottish history since 1700. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised but that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind, to assume that the processes of nation-making have little to do with sexual difference. Politics and citizenship, nation-making, the imperial project, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, religion, education, and cultural production are processes or events which are far from being neutral in gender terms. On the contrary, as this book shows, they are coloured by assumptions about men and women, masculinity…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow




Introduction : gendering the agenda




Gender and Scottish identity




Women, gender and politics




Religion




Education and learning




Medicine, science and the body




Gender, the arts and culture




Work, trade and commerce




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