Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World

Shetland 1800–2000

By:

Lynn Abrams

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Gender in History

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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. -- .

Author Biography:

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow

Release date NZ

November 10th, 2005

Author

Lynn Abrams

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

264

Series

Gender in History

Dimensions

138x216x16

ISBN-13

9780719065927

Product ID

6891141

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