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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twisted sisters. East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland : Tuckwell Press, 2002 (OCoLC)654384820 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Yvonne Galloway Brown; Rona Ferguson |
| ISBN: | 1862322953 9781862322950 |
| OCLC Number: | 51438851 |
| Description: | x, 212 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 'Barbarous and pestiferous women' : female criminality, violence and agression in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland and Ireland / Andrea Knox -- Death, removal and resignation : the succession to the office of prioress in late medieval Scotland / Kimm Perkins -- The bewitchment of Christian Shaw : a reassessment of the famous Paisley witchcraft case of 1697 / Hugh McLachlan and Kim Swales -- The fair sex turns ugly : female involvement in the Jacobite rising of 1745 / Maggie Craig -- Abandoned and beastly? : the Queen Caroline Affair in Scotland / Catriona M.M. Macdonald -- Crime or culture? : women and daily life in late-medieval Scotland / Elizabeth Ewan -- Twisted by definition : women under godly discipline in seventeenth-century Scottish towns / Gordon DesBrisay -- Maternal monsters : murdering mothers in south-west Scotland, 1750-1815 / Anne-Marie Kilday -- From demon to victim : the infanticidal mother in Shetland, 1699-1899 / Lynn Abrams. |
| Other Titles: | Women, crime and deviance in Scotland since 1400 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson. |
Abstract:
Spanning the medieval period to modernity, the papers in this collection look at women's involvement in crime and deviance in both public and private spheres of Scottish society including
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