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Myth and materiality in a woman's world [[electronic resource] ] : Shetland 1800-2000 / / Lynn Abrams



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Autore: Abrams Lynn Visualizza persona
Titolo: Myth and materiality in a woman's world [[electronic resource] ] : Shetland 1800-2000 / / Lynn Abrams Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 305.409411/3509034
Soggetto topico: Women - Scotland - Shetland - Social conditions - 19th century
Women - Scotland - Shetland - Social conditions - 20th century
Sex role - Scotland - Shetland - History - 19th century
Sex role - Scotland - Shetland - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 19th century
Shetland (Scotland) Social conditions 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: British mainland
Shetland women
culture
demographic factors
economic factors
fishing
gender relations
historical materiality
myth-making
power
work patterns
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
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ISBN: 1-84779-358-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786202203321
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Serie: Gender in history.