Women and Scotland

Women and Scotland

Literature, culture, politics

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon (edit. director)

2020 – ISBN : 978-2-84867-674-6 – 344 pages – book size : 15x21 cm

Collection : Annales littéraires

Serie : Caledonia. Insights into Scotland

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Summary

There are outstanding women in the history of Scotland, from Mary Queen of Scots to Nicola Sturgeon. At a time when Scotland is envisaging itself as a nation again, the volume examines the part played by women in this construction. Adopting a perspective that is cultural as well as political, the contributors focus on the representation of historical characters such as queens Mary and Margaret, Marie de Guise, or women Makars, and on public and cultural policies. The volume also looks at contemporary writing, with authors such as Jackie Kay, Janice Galloway, Ali Smith, Agnes Owens, Morna Pearson, Kathleen Jamie.

Contents

Introduction

Marie-Odile Pitin-Hédon

 Part 1 : Women in History and Myth

 

Mary (1977) and Margaret (2000): perspectives on the representation of Scottish historical figures

Ian Brown

Calédonia, du concept aux représentations

Jean Berton


Three women in the Scottish cultural landscape: Deirdre, Grainne and Medb

Céline Savatier-Lahondes


La place de la femme dans le mouvement covenantaire, 1637-1685

Sabrina Juillet


Marie of Lorraine-Guise and the idea of a “Franco-Scotland” (1548-1560)

Annette Bächstadt


Les femmes Makars : ambassadrices de l’Ecosse contemporaine

Christelle Ferrere

 

Part 2 : Women in Politics and Culture

Un enjeu genré ? Les femmes écossaises et l'indépendance

Gilles Leydier


Les femmes, les politiques publiques et le Scotland Act de 2016

Edwige Camp-Piétrain


Class rather than gender: Women in the Scottish Labout Movement, 1900-1945

Christian Civardi


The contribution of the Women's Freedom League to the Cause of women's suffrage in Scotland

Sarah Pedersen


Living Culture in Scotland: cherished by women, commandeered by men?

Alison McCleery


Legitimizing and propagating the ideology of domesticity: the People's Journal of Dundee (1858-1867)

Christian Auer


'The Lass o' Pairts'; the working class female student in literature and reality in Scotland

Alison Taylor McCall


Personal, National, and International Testimony in Willa Muir's Life-Writing

Margery Palmer McCulloch


Women Reader and the Scottish Imaginary

Alistair McCleery

 

Part 3: Contemporary Scottish Women’s literature

Mothers and Daughterlands in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Literature

Glenda Norquay


Mapping the Visceral: Female Experience of Spaces and Places in Janice Galloway’s Jellyfish

Dóra Vercsernyés


Agnes Owens’s strong fighting women, or the insurrection of small, invisible lives

Benjamine Toussaint


Rediscovering the currency of Scottish women’s voices in Ali Smith’s Shire

Jess Orr


Rewriting myths and writing herstory in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy

Sarah Bisson


Morna Pearson et la comédie tragique domestique « Doric » : cherchez la femme…

Danièle Berton-Charrière


Women Writing the Wild

Camille Manfredi

 

Author (s)
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon (edit. director)
Marie-Odile PIttin-Hedon is Professor of contemporary Scottish literature at Aix-Marseille Université.
The authors are European academics working on Scotland and on Scottish studies.
Readership
Students and academics specializing in Scottish studies, either history or literature. People carrying out research on women, feminism, on the part played by women in history or, recently, in the independence referendum.
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