Jane Mcdermid
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Mcdermid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermid |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMID J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women at Work, 1860–1939
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 presents a comparative synthesis of the schooling of working and middle-class girls in the Victorian period, with…
Obituary
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850
Home and Away
Writing in this journal in 1993, Marjorie Theobald examined the history of middle-class women's education in late-eighteenth-century Britain and its transference and adaptation to colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. She questioned both the British historical perception that before the middle of the nineteenth century middle-class parents showed little, if any, interest in their daughters' education, and the Australian assumption that th…
No Longer Curiously Rare but Only Just within Bounds
This article examines the development of women's history in Scotland since the first conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (1989). The title is taken from a 1997 article in Scottish Affairs (issue 18), in which Esther Breitenbach asked whether the ‘curiously rare’ women in Scottish history was a case of the ‘suppression of the female in the construction of national identity’. Thus, this study focuses on key th…
Blurring the Boundaries
The number of women who served on school boards in Scotland was not large, and generally they stood for election on an explicitly gendered platform in a way men did not, and most concentrated on the domestic education of girls. The work of the best known of these women, Flora Stevenson, who served on the Edinburgh School Board from the first election in 1873 until her death in 1905, shows that there were opportunities to broaden the scope of thei…
A Very Polite and Considerate Revolution
Members of the Russia Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) provide valuable accounts of the situation in Russia from 1916 to 1917. Their diaries confirm the popular nature of the overthrow of Nicholas II and reflect the gulf between the masses and the privileged minority: the 'Scottish women', like the upper classes, were onlookers, hopeful of a more effective Russian military performance, yet anxious lest the crowd had found its voice in…
The Making of a 'Domestic' Life
Louise Jermy's autobiography, Memories of a Working Woman (1934), has been described as 'a record of ill-luck, ill-health, poverty and disaster met with courage'. This article discusses Jermy's memoir both for the individual narrative and as a starting-point for consideration of the wider issues that surrounded the making of this 'domestic life'. While Jermy's life in domestic service was bound by home (her own and other people's), her story temp…
Gender, National Identity and the Royal (Argyll) Commission of Inquiry into Scottish Education (1864–1867)
Concern over the state of education in Scotland saw the Argyll Commission set up in 1864. Its reports revealed differences in the experience of schooling throughout Scotland as well as resistance to Anglicisation. Nevertheless, the influence of English attitudes is reflected throughout the reports. So too are the themes of social control and the interaction of class, gender and nationality. The Commission was not primarily concerned with gender i…
Women's Lives under Socialism
Anna Hilly ar and Jane McDermid, Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917: A Study in Collective Biography (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000). Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, eds., In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000). Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, The Politics of Gender after Socialism: A Compara tiv…
Midwives of the Revolution
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930
Introduction - to labour, to bear and to endure - the lot of the Russian woman worker?: women, work and family service to the people gender and the development of the working class gender, industrialization and urbanization. Part 1 Society, politics and the economy, 1880-1914: women in society and economy before the First World War - life on the land and the peasant economy, education and work, medicine and women, women workers in the city women …
Intellectual instruction is best left to a man
This paper builds on the work of Helen Corr concerning the gender division of labour in the Scottish teaching profession. Whereas Corr's focus is on the patriarchal nature of Scottish society, this discussion centres on the interaction of gender and nationality. The nineteenth century saw a crisis of national identity in Scotland, reflected in widespread fears of declining educational standards and the undermining of what was essentially a mascul…
Out of bounds
Perestroika and Soviet Women
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850–1914
Women's Lives under Socialism
Anna Hilly ar and Jane McDermid, Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917: A Study in Collective Biography (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000). Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, eds., In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000). Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, The Politics of Gender after Socialism: A Compara tiv…
Women at Work, 1860–1939
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 presents a comparative synthesis of the schooling of working and middle-class girls in the Victorian period, with…
The Making of a 'Domestic' Life
Louise Jermy's autobiography, Memories of a Working Woman (1934), has been described as 'a record of ill-luck, ill-health, poverty and disaster met with courage'. This article discusses Jermy's memoir both for the individual narrative and as a starting-point for consideration of the wider issues that surrounded the making of this 'domestic life'. While Jermy's life in domestic service was bound by home (her own and other people's), her story temp…
Gender, National Identity and the Royal (Argyll) Commission of Inquiry into Scottish Education (1864–1867)
Concern over the state of education in Scotland saw the Argyll Commission set up in 1864. Its reports revealed differences in the experience of schooling throughout Scotland as well as resistance to Anglicisation. Nevertheless, the influence of English attitudes is reflected throughout the reports. So too are the themes of social control and the interaction of class, gender and nationality. The Commission was not primarily concerned with gender i…
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850–1914
Perestroika and Soviet Women
Out of bounds
Intellectual instruction is best left to a man
This paper builds on the work of Helen Corr concerning the gender division of labour in the Scottish teaching profession. Whereas Corr's focus is on the patriarchal nature of Scottish society, this discussion centres on the interaction of gender and nationality. The nineteenth century saw a crisis of national identity in Scotland, reflected in widespread fears of declining educational standards and the undermining of what was essentially a mascul…
Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930
Introduction - to labour, to bear and to endure - the lot of the Russian woman worker?: women, work and family service to the people gender and the development of the working class gender, industrialization and urbanization. Part 1 Society, politics and the economy, 1880-1914: women in society and economy before the First World War - life on the land and the peasant economy, education and work, medicine and women, women workers in the city women …
Midwives of the Revolution
Women's Lives under Socialism
Anna Hilly ar and Jane McDermid, Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917: A Study in Collective Biography (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000). Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, eds., In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000). Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, The Politics of Gender after Socialism: A Compara tiv…
Gender, National Identity and the Royal (Argyll) Commission of Inquiry into Scottish Education (1864–1867)
Concern over the state of education in Scotland saw the Argyll Commission set up in 1864. Its reports revealed differences in the experience of schooling throughout Scotland as well as resistance to Anglicisation. Nevertheless, the influence of English attitudes is reflected throughout the reports. So too are the themes of social control and the interaction of class, gender and nationality. The Commission was not primarily concerned with gender i…
A Very Polite and Considerate Revolution
Members of the Russia Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) provide valuable accounts of the situation in Russia from 1916 to 1917. Their diaries confirm the popular nature of the overthrow of Nicholas II and reflect the gulf between the masses and the privileged minority: the 'Scottish women', like the upper classes, were onlookers, hopeful of a more effective Russian military performance, yet anxious lest the crowd had found its voice in…
The Making of a 'Domestic' Life
Louise Jermy's autobiography, Memories of a Working Woman (1934), has been described as 'a record of ill-luck, ill-health, poverty and disaster met with courage'. This article discusses Jermy's memoir both for the individual narrative and as a starting-point for consideration of the wider issues that surrounded the making of this 'domestic life'. While Jermy's life in domestic service was bound by home (her own and other people's), her story temp…
Blurring the Boundaries
The number of women who served on school boards in Scotland was not large, and generally they stood for election on an explicitly gendered platform in a way men did not, and most concentrated on the domestic education of girls. The work of the best known of these women, Flora Stevenson, who served on the Edinburgh School Board from the first election in 1873 until her death in 1905, shows that there were opportunities to broaden the scope of thei…
Obituary
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850
Home and Away
Writing in this journal in 1993, Marjorie Theobald examined the history of middle-class women's education in late-eighteenth-century Britain and its transference and adaptation to colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. She questioned both the British historical perception that before the middle of the nineteenth century middle-class parents showed little, if any, interest in their daughters' education, and the Australian assumption that th…
No Longer Curiously Rare but Only Just within Bounds
This article examines the development of women's history in Scotland since the first conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History (1989). The title is taken from a 1997 article in Scottish Affairs (issue 18), in which Esther Breitenbach asked whether the ‘curiously rare’ women in Scottish history was a case of the ‘suppression of the female in the construction of national identity’. Thus, this study focuses on key th…
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 presents a comparative synthesis of the schooling of working and middle-class girls in the Victorian period, with…
Women at Work, 1860–1939
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Irish and British Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (6 works)