Author: Jessie Margaret E. SaxbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Daala-Mist; Or Stories of Shetland
Author: Jessie Margaret E. SaxbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Author: Lynn AbramsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847793584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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 sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
Rock-bound: a Story of the Shetland Isles
Author: Jessie Margaret Edmondston SaxbyPublisher:
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Category : Shetland (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
History of Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Douglas GiffordPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Scottish Congregational Magazine - Vol. XXV, January to December 1876.
Author: EdinburghFasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ
Author: Hew ScottPublications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Signet Library. 1882-1887
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Horace's Odes
Author: HoracePublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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