Girls in trouble : sexuality and social control in rural Scotland 1660-1780
Mitchison, Rosalind1998
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Unmarried pregnant women, and the men who caused their pregnancies, were targeted by Scottish church courts determined to maintain a godly society. Drawing on their records, Girls in Trouble looks at illegitimacy patterns in different regions of Scotland, at the attitudes of Church and State, and at the behaviour and expectations of the couples. Individual stories emerge of hardship and generosity, roughness and kindness, revealing a very rural world in which people nevertheless experienced the universal emotions of love, hate, tenderness and defiance.
Main title:
Girls in trouble : sexuality and social control in rural Scotland 1660-1780 / Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Scottish Cultural Press, 1998.
Collation:
viii,133pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"This is a revised edition of Sexuality and social control : Scotland, 1660-1780, first published by Blackwells in 1989."Formerly CIP.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
18982188979781898218890
Dewey class:
941.07
Local class:
306.8509411941.106AM5
Language:
English
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Index terms:
illegitimacyIrregular marriage
BRN:
360817