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Scottish Women - Esther Breitenbach, Linda Fleming, Karly Kehoe, Lesley Orr

Scottish Women

A Documentary History, 1780-1914
Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-6368-0 (ISBN)
CHF 44,90 inkl. MwSt
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Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women’s attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.
Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British empire, illustrating many facets of women's lives - domesticity and waged work, defiance of law and convention, religious faith and respectability, political action and public influence. A range of fascinating and rich source material sheds new light on the lives of women across Scotland throughout the long nineteenth century, demonstrating the pervasiveness of discourses of appropriate feminine behaviour, but also women’s subversion of this. It raises challenging questions for researchers about the identification of women’s voices, where these have been muted by class, religion, or ethnicity, while at the same time providing a methodology for uncovering these.
Thought-provoking and innovative, this text will prove an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers. It will enable them to discover new ways of understanding the Scottish past and serve as a guide to redressing the gender imbalance of historical narratives.

Dr Esther Breitenbach is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. Previously Research Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh, she has held research and teaching posts in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology since 2007. Dr Linda Fleming is currently Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Scotland. S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. Prior to coming to Saint Mary’s, she lived and worked in Scotland. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Global Young Academy and the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and an alumna of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland. Her work concentrates on Scottish and Irish Catholic settlement and colonisation in the north Atlantic, but she is also interested in sustainable development and rural change in Nova Scotia and the Scottish Highlands. Dr Lesley Orr is a feminist historian and activist. She has held teaching and research posts at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and is currently an Honorary Fellow at the School of Classics, History and Archaeology, University and Edinburgh. She has served as a member of the steering committee of Women’s History Scotland.

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Readers’ Guide; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Bodies, Sexuality and Health, Linda Fleming; Chapter 3: Hearth and Home; Linda Fleming; Chapter 4: Work and Working Conditions, Esther Breitenbach; Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment, Immorality and Reform, S. Karly Kehoe; Chapter 6: Religion, Lesley Orr; Chapter 7: Protest and Politics, Lesley Orr; Chapter 8: Empire Experiences and Perspectives, Esther Breitenbach.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.4.2026
Zusatzinfo 10 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-3995-6368-8 / 1399563688
ISBN-13 978-1-3995-6368-0 / 9781399563680
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