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The lives of Scottish women : women and Scottish society, 1800-1980 /

This book tells the remarkable stories of ten women whose inspirational lives and struggles exemplify the concerns and problems that other women have faced throughout the last two centuries. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived. The ninete...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knox, William, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • 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)
  • 10 Mary Brooksbank: Work, Poverty and Politics in Twentieth-Century Scotland
  • Annotated Bibliography.