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Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
Spinning was an expected part of the daily work of Medieval townswomen of all social classes. In crafts, women could sometimes be apprentices, but they could not join guilds in their own right. Scotland had fewer nunneries than male monasteries, but prioresses were figures with considerable authority. There may have been small numbers of ...
Other female figures from Celtic mythology include the weather witch Cailleach (Irish for 'nun,' 'witch,' 'the veiled' or 'old woman') of Scotland and Ireland, the Corrigan of Brittany who are beautiful seductresses, the Irish Banshee (woman of the Otherworld) who appears before important deaths, the Scottish warrior women Scáthach, Uathach ...
Second-wave feminists, influenced by de Beauvoir, believed that although biological differences between females and males were innate, the concepts of femininity and masculinity had been culturally constructed, with traits such as passivity and tenderness assigned to women and aggression and intelligence assigned to men.
Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh (1519–1569) was an aristocratic Scottish woman and a mistress of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. [1] She had a total of five husbands. One of her nieces was Mary Beaton , one of the four ladies-in-waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots , known in history as the four Marys .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People of medieval Scotland. It includes People of medieval Scotland that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
It includes Scottish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "14th-century Scottish women" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
It includes Scottish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "13th-century Scottish women" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.