Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
Lynn Abrams and Eleanor Gordon
Abstract
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 ... More
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.
Keywords:
Women,
gender,
Scotland,
History,
Identity,
masculinity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748617609 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617609.001.0001 |
