Richard Ralph (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635849
- eISBN:
- 9780748671120
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635849.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The text offers a conspectus of the work of Professor McGowan and, in particular, focuses on French culture in the 16th and 17th centuries; the development of the study of dance in this early period ...
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The text offers a conspectus of the work of Professor McGowan and, in particular, focuses on French culture in the 16th and 17th centuries; the development of the study of dance in this early period and of the appropriate theoretical and historical approaches needed to bring court culture and choreographies of the baroque to the critical attention of modern scholars.Less
The text offers a conspectus of the work of Professor McGowan and, in particular, focuses on French culture in the 16th and 17th centuries; the development of the study of dance in this early period and of the appropriate theoretical and historical approaches needed to bring court culture and choreographies of the baroque to the critical attention of modern scholars.
Lynn Abrams and Eleanor Gordon (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748617609
- eISBN:
- 9780748672172
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617609.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700. It addresses some of the main themes in Scottish history from a different perspective. It asks what happens to the story of ...
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This book offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700. It addresses some of the main themes in Scottish history from a different perspective. It asks what happens to the story of Scotland's past when women's experience is added and when understandings about masculinity and femininity are applied to the past. Politics and citizenship, nation-making, the imperial project, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, religion, education, and cultural production are not neutral processes or events. They are coloured by assumptions about men and women, masculinity and femininity and the roles deemed appropriate to the sexes.This is the first text to offer an accessible introduction to the ways in which theories of gender might offer new readings of modern Scottish history. It engages with central themes such as politics, identity, work and religion as well as some more unusual topics such as science and medicine and culture.Less
This book offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700. It addresses some of the main themes in Scottish history from a different perspective. It asks what happens to the story of Scotland's past when women's experience is added and when understandings about masculinity and femininity are applied to the past. Politics and citizenship, nation-making, the imperial project, the Enlightenment, industrialisation, religion, education, and cultural production are not neutral processes or events. They are coloured by assumptions about men and women, masculinity and femininity and the roles deemed appropriate to the sexes.This is the first text to offer an accessible introduction to the ways in which theories of gender might offer new readings of modern Scottish history. It engages with central themes such as politics, identity, work and religion as well as some more unusual topics such as science and medicine and culture.
