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Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland
Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland
Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland
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For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at our heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light.


Where Are The Women? They’ve been here all along…


Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings – even in the hills and valleys?


This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where the cave on Staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal, and Arthur’s Seat isn’t Arthur’s, it belongs to St Triduana. You arrive into Dundee at Slessor Station and the Victorian monument on Stirling’s Abbey Hill interprets national identity through the women who ran hospitals during the First World War. The West Highland Way ends at Fort Mary. The Old Lady of Hoy is a prominent Orkney landmark. And the plinths in central Glasgow proudly display statues of the suffragettes who fought until they won.


In this guide, streets, buildings, statues and monuments are dedicated to real women, telling their often unknown stories.

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Release dateSep 23, 2019
ISBN9781849172745
Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland
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Sara Sheridan

SARA SHERIDAN is a historical novelist who writesthe Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries, plus epics based onthe real-life adventures of Victorian explorers. Hernovel On Starlit Seas was shortlisted for the WilburSmith Adventure Writing Prize 2017. Fascinatedby women’s history, she appears regularly ontelevision and radio. She has been named one ofthe Saltire Society’s 365 most influential womenpast and present.

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