Scottish Women

Dr Esther Breitenbach is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. Previously Research Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh, she has held research and teaching posts in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology since 2007. Dr Linda Fleming is currently Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Scotland. S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. Prior to coming to Saint Mary’s, she lived and worked in Scotland. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Global Young Academy and the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and an alumna of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland. Her work concentrates on Scottish and Irish Catholic settlement and colonisation in the north Atlantic, but she is also interested in sustainable development and rural change in Nova Scotia and the Scottish Highlands. Dr Lesley Orr is a feminist historian and activist. She has held teaching and research posts at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and is currently an Honorary Fellow at the School of Classics, History and Archaeology, University and Edinburgh. She has served as a member of the steering committee of Women’s History Scotland.

This is a superb collection, destined to be widely used. Especially distinctive and valuable is the presentation of women’s experiences almost entirely in their own words for the study of the nation’s past

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Readers’ Guide; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Bodies, Sexuality and Health, Linda Fleming; Chapter 3: Hearth and Home; Linda Fleming; Chapter 4: Work and Working Conditions, Esther Breitenbach; Chapter 5: Crime and Punishment, Immorality and Reform, S. Karly Kehoe; Chapter 6: Religion, Lesley Orr; Chapter 7: Protest and Politics, Lesley Orr; Chapter 8: Empire Experiences and Perspectives, Esther Breitenbach.