ISBN:
9781847793584
,
1847793584
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 252 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Gender in history
Parallel Title:
Print version Myth and materiality in a woman's world
DDC:
305.4094113509034
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Scotland
;
Shetland
;
Women Social conditions
;
20th century
;
Scotland
;
Shetland
;
Sex role History
;
19th century
;
Scotland
;
Shetland
;
Sex role History
;
20th century
;
Scotland
;
Shetland
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Sex role History 19th century
;
Sex role History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 19th century
;
Sex role History 20th century
;
Sex role History 19th century
;
Women Social conditions 19th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Social conditions
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Sex role
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions
;
20th century
;
Scotland
;
Shetland
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 19th century
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 20th century
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 20th century
;
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 19th century
;
Scotland ; Shetland
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Copyright; Contents; List of figures, table and plates; Preface and acknowledgements; Glossary and note on Shetland dialect; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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