|
|
|
|
|
 |
| HOME WHAT'S NEW SPECIALS ANTIQUARIAN / USED UPCOMING EVENTS NEWSLETTER CONTACT US |
Order Online or Call
1-800-361-5168 |
|---|
|
|
|
|
|
Books, Maps & Other Resources Scotland / Scottish Genealogy & History Books, Maps, & Resources - Scotland | Flags - Scotland Global Gazette Scotland Articles Searchable Online Scottish Data | Useful Scotland Links BOOK - Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400 Edited By: Yvonne Galloway Brown, Rona Ferguson. 
This book arose from the Scottish Women's History Network conference, Twisted Sisters, held at Glasgow Caledonian University in October 2000. Spanning the medieval period to modernity, it looks at women's involvement in crime and deviance in both private and public spheres of Scottish society including infanticide, social deviance, witchcraft and political influence. Here is a new perspective on accepted norms of female behaviour, challenging the received view of women as necessarily restrained by the conventions of their time. History has constructed a masculine narrative of violence where war, aggression, political commitment and criminality are the province of strong-minded men. This book redefines the boundaries to include the actions of equally strong-minded women. It shows us that womanly emotions, so long held to epitomize femininity, have an energetic flipside in ambition, anger, radicalism and transgression played out on the domestic and social stage; that women throughout the centuries have been actors in crime and deviance rather than mere passive recipients of punishment. Number of pages: 224 Dimensions: 6.13 x 9.25 inches Bibliography: Yes Index: Yes Notes: Yes Format: Trade Paperback Published: 2002 ISBN: 1862322953
|
|
|
