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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World - Shetland 1800-2000 (Hardcover, New)
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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World - Shetland 1800-2000 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Gender in History
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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. -- .
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