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Medieval Scotland was a patriarchal society, where authority was invested in men and in which women had a very limited legal status. Daughters were meant to be subservient to their fathers and wives to their husbands, with only widows able to own property and to represent themselves in law. [1]
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.
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.
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 ...
It includes People of medieval Scotland that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
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.
Pages in category "History of women in Scotland" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
Annabella of Scotland (c. 1436 – 1509) was a Scottish princess, a member of the House of Stewart, and by her two marriages Countess of Geneva and Countess of Huntly. Both of her marriages were annulled, the first without being consummated and the second on grounds of consanguinity .