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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World - Shetland 1800-2000 (Paperback)
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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World - Shetland 1800-2000 (Paperback)
Series: Gender in History
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The place of women in Shetland society is unique. In this isolated
island group off the north of Scotland, women dominated the family,
economy and the cultural imagination for 200 years. Here, women
were numerically preponderant and economically vital. They
maintained families and communities because men were absent. In
their minds they constructed an identity of themselves as
'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. It
examines the opportunities and life experiences of women in a place
where more of them worked and fewer got married than anywhere else
in the British Isles. And it is about the relationship between
myth-making and historical materiality and the ways in which the
people of this northern archipelago have imagined their past.
Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural
experience captured in written and oral sources, the author
recreates and explores Shetland using its inhabitants' material
experience and personal testimony. -- .
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