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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主要作者: Knox, William, 1948-
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2006.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r2b3c
書本目錄:
  • 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.