Gender and Enlightenment Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland - Carr, Rosalind (Lecturer in History, University of East London)

Combines intellectual and cultural history to explore how men and women experienced the Scottish Enlightenment. It examines Scotland in a European context, investigating ideologies of gender and cultural practices among the urban elites of Scotland in the eighteenth century, from the violent ritual of duel, to the absence of Scottish bluestockings.