‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’: Criminal Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Anne-Marie Kilday

‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’: Criminal Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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Throughout the early modern period, women were charged with being virtuous, chaste, modest, genteel, courteous and, most importantly, obedient to their male forebears and to their husbands. Contemporary didactic literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries clearly advocated and supported this prescribed behaviour of moral rectitude and gendered subservience based on contemporary perceptions of the disorderly nature of women and their consequent need to be controlled by men. Many examples of this patriarchal sentiment are evident in Scotland; a country with a long established history of religious piety and intensity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Subtitle of host publication	Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	13
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Print)	9781315546773
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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Kilday, A.-M. (2013). ‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’: Criminal Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. In Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315546773-25/outrageous-acts-everyday-rebellions-criminal-women-eighteenth-century-scotland?context=ubx&refId=681ab155-d18b-4327-b814-cb99762ec976

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‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’: Criminal Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

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