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MYTH AND MATERIALITY IN A WOMAN'S WORLD
SHETLAND 1800-2000 |
| By: |
Lynn Abrams |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719065933 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719065934 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2010 |
| Series: |
Gender in History |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
This book examines how in the nineteenth century Shetland became a female place. It offers fascinating insights into the formation and workings of a matriarchal society. The book includes a glossary and will appeal to those interested in local dialects, as well as students and academics of Gender Studies and Scottish History. |
| Synopsis: |
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. -- . |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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