0719065925 - Myth and materiality in a woman's world: Shetland 1800-2000 (Gender in History) von Abrams, Lynn (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0719065925.

Zustand: New. List of tables and figures List of Illustrations Glossary Note on Shetland dialect Map Preface and acknowledgements 1. Pasts, peoples, selves 2. Stories 3. Place 4. Work 5. Culture 6. Sexualities 7. Power 8. Reflections Bibliography Index.

Zustand: New. In.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 252 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.