Katie Barclay

Love, intimacy and power: marriage and patriarchy in Scotland 1650 - 1850

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: thinking patriarchy 2. Marriage within Scottish culture 3. The first step to marriage: courtship 4. The construction of patriarchy: love, obligation and obedience 5. The negotiation of patriarchy: intimacy, friendship and duty 6. The ambiguities of patriarchy: the marital economy 7. When negotiation fails: the abuses of patriarchy 8. Conclusion: rethinking patriarchy Select bibliography Index

Introduction: Performing the Self: women's lives in historical perspective

This special edition originated in the 19th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network: Performing the Self: women’s lives in historical perspective, held on the 10–12 September 2010 at the University of Warwick. Attended by 120 delegates from five continents over three days the conference explored the myriad of ways that women performed selfhood in past societies. The topics ranged across time, from medieval performances of gender and race to representations of the closing of the Greenham Common peace camp in 2002, and across place, incorporating women from Europe, America, Asia, Australia and Africa. The concept of performance is central to a number of fields including anthropology, psychology, linguistics, politics and theatre studies. This multi-disciplinary focus was reflected in the attendance from scholars across a variety of branches of the humanities and social sciences, including literature, art history, theatre studies and sociology. Although performance may be a contested concept, the variety of meanings of the term, across the disciplines, invited participants to view numerous realities and to interpret them in multiple ways. This focus on interdisciplinarity was also mirrored in the plenary papers. Professor of Politics,

Intimacy and the life cycle in the marital relationships of the Scottish elite during the long eighteenth century.

Traditionally marriage has been treated as one step in the life cycle, between youth and old age, singleness and widowhood. Yet an approach to the life cycle that treats marriage as a single step in a person’s life is overly simplistic. During the eighteenth century many marriages were of considerable longevity during which time couples aged together and power dynamics within the home were frequently renegotiated to reflect changing circumstances. This study explores how intimacy developed and changed over the life cycle of marriage and what this meant for power, through a study of the correspondence of two elite Scottish couples.

Introduction: Gender and Generations: women and life cycles

Taylor and Francis RWHR_A_556317.sgm 10.1080/09612025.2011.556317 Women’s History Review 0961-2 25 (pri t)/1747-583X (online) Original rt cle 2 1 & Francis 0000Ap il 201 D KatieBa cl y k.barcl y@qub.ac.uk The 17th Annual Conference of the Women’s History Network (UK) was hosted by the Centre for Gender History, University of Glasgow on 5–7 September 2008. The Centre for Gender History was formed in 2008 and developed from the recognition that the School of History at Glasgow University has the largest concentration

Composing the Self: Gender, Subjectivity and Scottish Balladry

ABSTRACT The focusing of post-structuralism on broader social discourses has led to the sidelining of the ‘author’ within cultural history. This article explores authorship and subjectivity in the composition of Scottish balladry – a genre transmitted over generations and collectively composed. It argues that even within texts as seemingly socially created as ballads the voice of individual singers can be heard, highlighting their concerns and subjectivities. This article focuses on songs collected from Scottish balladists by the early nineteenth-century collector William Motherwell and discusses how gender identity was explored in ballads by singers.

Stereotypes as political resistance: the Irish police court columns, c.1820–1845

Abstract Police court columns were a popular and flourishing representation of the courtroom in the early nineteenth-century British and Irish press. Despite this, they have been little used by historians, perhaps due to their often humorous and comic depictions of the courtroom. This article re-evaluates the Irish police court columns as a site of debate around Irish national identity at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that these representations were not only sophisticated, but allowed the Irish to reformulate the stereotype of the stage Irishman. Moreover, as representations that captured behaviours of individuals within the courtroom, they provided an opportunity for a broad swathe of the community to engage in broader debates around the nature of Irishness and Irish political rights.

Love and Violence in the Music of Late Modernity

Abstract Using evidence from popular music, this article highlights how contemporary definitions of love combine ideas about the modern self as autonomous and distinct with an emphasis on the importance of sacrifice and devotion to the achievement of successful relationships. The tension between these concepts is manifested in ambivalence to love, with pain, conflict, and violence reoccurring features within popular music. This article argues, that as love is not just a feeling but implicated in structuring intimate behaviors, this understanding of love leads to the naturalizing of conflict and violence in modern relationships.

Emotions, the Law and the Press in Britain: Seduction and Breach of Promise Suits, 1780-1830

The role played by the press in shaping emotions is a topic of increasing interest. Moral panics and sexual scandals have long been recognised as key discursive sites in the shaping of modern Britain. This article contributes to that debate with an exploration of how the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century press shaped an emotional public opinion through the reporting of breach of promise and seduction suits. It argues that the press directed men into roles as defenders of the nation through their protection of female virtue, using emotion to invest the British public in nation-building.

Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century1

Using an anthropological approach that views space as a cultural process created through the interaction between environment, the cultural meanings attached to those environments, and gendered bodies (with their own attached cultural meanings), this article explores how understandings of space in Ireland, and on the farm in particular, shaped womens role in farming households and more broadly in late nineteenth-century rural Ireland. It then raises questions about the implications of this for gendered interactions on the farm and for power relationships in the family.

Falling in love with the dead

ABSTRACT The ability of an emotional engagement – perhaps an entanglement – to bring the past into the present is the subject of this paper. If acknowledging that historians feel emotions whilst doing research is hardly new, the critical capacities of such emotion are under-explored, particularly for those of us who work with the dead. In exploring the issues raised by emotions in archival research, I engage with similar conversations by scholars in a range of disciplines, from the work on ‘archive fever’, to subjectivity and research ethics, to affective memory, to histories of reading and mourning. I use this scholarship to explore my attempt to fall in love with the highly unlikeable Scottish banker Gilbert Innes of Stowe (1751–1832), arguing for the importance of a critical assessment of our emotional response as a productive contribution to historical knowledge-making.