Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World - Shetland 1800-2000

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow Klappentext The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family, economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women were numerically preponderant and economically vital. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. In their minds they constructed an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. It examines the opportunities and life experiences of women in a place where more of them worked and fewer got married than anywhere else in the British Isles. And it is about the relationship between myth-making and historical materiality and the ways in which the people of this northern archipelago have imagined their past. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, the author recreates and explores Shetland using its inhabitants' material experience and personal testimony. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, tables and platesPreface and acknowledgementsGlossary and note on Shetland dialectMap of Shetland1. Pasts, peoples and selves2. Stories3. Place4. Work5. Culture6. Sexualities7. Power8. ReflectionsBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lynn Abrams, Abrams Lynn, Lynn Abrams Is Professor of Gender Histo
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780719065934
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6593-4
• Pagine: 268
• Dimensioni: 142 mm x 217 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Gender in History (Paperback); Gender in History
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Shetland Islands, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls