Product Description: Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future.But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities...read more

Product Description: This volume challenges many stereotypes about Victorian women and their families and offers insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the 20th century. Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair examine women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives...read more

Product Description: A history of women's waged work in Scotland during the 19th and early 20th centuries which casts much new light on the real nature of women's working lives. In agriculture, domestic labour, the printing and textile trades as well as sweated home work, women had very little choice or authority in the work they did...read more

Product Description: A study of working women in Scotland in the late 1900s, this book uncovers the patterns of employment, involvement in and relationship to trade unions, and the forms of workplace resistance and struggles in which these women engaged...read more