Format:
Online-Ressource (234 p., [8] p. of plates)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0748617884
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0748624090
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9780748626557
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9780748617883
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9780748624096
Content:
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed great changes in women's position in Scotland. This work tells the stories of ten women, providing evidence of the contribution made by women to the shaping of modern Scotland. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Jane Welsh Carlyle: Living with Genius (1); 2 Eliza Wigham: Religion, Radicalism and the Origins of the Women's Movement in Nineteenth-Century Scotland; 3 Madeleine Smith: Sex and the Single Girl in Victorian Scotland; 4 Sophia Jex-Blake: Women and Higher Education in Nineteenth-Century Scotland; 5 Lady Frances Balfour: The Radical Aristocrat; 6 Mary Mitchell Slessor: Serving God and Country; 7 Elsie Maud Inglis: Scotland's Joan of Arc?; 8 Katherine, Duchess of Atholl: The Red Duchess?; 9 Willa Muir: Living with Genius (2)
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10 Mary Brooksbank: Work, Poverty and Politics in Twentieth-Century ScotlandAnnotated Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748617883
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Lives of Scottish Women : Women and Scottish Society 1800-1980
Language:
English
