Where are the Women?

Where are the Women?
Title Where are the Women? PDF eBook
Author Sara Sheridan
Publisher
Pages 448
Release 2021-03-04
Genre
ISBN 9781849173087

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Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings - even in the hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where the cave on Staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal, and Arthur's Seat isn't Arthur's, it belongs to St Triduana. Where you arrive into Dundee at Slessor Station and the Victorian monument on Stirling's Abbey Hill interprets national identity not as a male warrior but through the women who ran hospitals during the First World War. The West Highland Way ends at Fort Mary. The Old Lady of Hoy is a prominent Orkney landmark. And the plinths in central Glasgow proudly display statues of suffragettes. In this 'imagined atlas' fictional streets, buildings, statues and monuments are dedicated to real women, telling their often untold or unknown stories.For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at Scotland's heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light. Sara Sheridan explores beyond the traditional male-dominated histories to reveal a new picture of Scotland's history and heritage.

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750

Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750
Title Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth L. Ewan
Publisher Birlinn Ltd
Pages 265
Release 1999-11-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1788854454

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This collection of essays addresses women in Scotland in the medieval and early modem period, drawing on archival sources from Court of Session records to Middle Scots poetry. The editors argue persuasively that it is important to know about Scotswomen from all social levels. The book includes a time line and introductory bibliographical essay. The twenty essays in the collection are arranged under the themes of religion, literature, legal history, the economy, politics and the family. They demonstrate the connections between Scottish women's experience and those in England and the continent, as well as highlighting what was unique for the history of Scottish women. Through this comprehensive review of the feminine situation during more than six hundred years of Scottish history, the reader will discover how women really lived and what they really thought, whatever their place in society.

Quines

Quines
Title Quines PDF eBook
Author Gerda Stevenson
Publisher Luath Press Ltd
Pages 153
Release 2020-04-08
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1912387786

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Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.

Scotland: Her Story

Scotland: Her Story
Title Scotland: Her Story PDF eBook
Author Rosemary Goring
Publisher Birlinn Publishers
Pages
Release 2019-09-19
Genre History
ISBN 9781780275987

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A landmark publication: the first-ever history of Scotland told from the perspective of women - the half of history that we forgot

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Title Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland PDF eBook
Author Deborah Simonton
Publisher Routledge
Pages 284
Release 2016-12-05
Genre History
ISBN 1134774923

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The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women

The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Title The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Ewan
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781474436274

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With fascinating lives on every page, the Dictionary offers concise entries that illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to the early twenty-first century, as well as the worldwide Scottish diaspora.

Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen

Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen
Title Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth L. Ewan
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 470
Release 2007-06-27
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0748626603

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This single-volume dictionary presents the lives ofindividual Scottish women from earliest times to the present. Drawing on newscholarship and a wide network of professional and amateur historians, itthrows light on the experience of women from every class and category inScotland and among the worldwide Scottish diaspora.The BiographicalDictionary of Scottish Women is written for the general reading public andfor students of Scottish history and society. It is scholarly in itsapproach to evidence and engaging in the manner of its presentation. Eachentry makes sense of its subject in narrative terms, telling a story ratherthan simply offering information. The book is as enjoyable to read as it iseasy and valuable to consult. It is a unique and important contribution tothe history of women and Scotland.The publisher acknowledges support fromthe Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive Equalities Unit towardsthe publication of this title.