Gender in Scottish History Since 1700
Abrams, Lynn / Gordon, Eleanor / Simonton, Deborah / Yeo, Eileen This book offers gendered perspectives on the main themes in Scottish history since 1700. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised but that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind, to assume that the processes of nation-making have little to do with sexual difference. Politics and citizenship, nation-making, the imperial project, the Enlig...