Munro, Gillian

Russell Trust

Carnegie Trust

B.F.W.G. (Edinburgh and London branches)

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1996

This thesis is an ethnographic study of the lives of young married women in a fishing village in the North East of Scotland. I illustrate the central role played by women in the maintenance of home, family and community through a discussion of their daily lives as housewives, as mothers, as members of kin networks, as friends and as social participants. Major achievements of the study are to demonstrate the complexity and multiplicity of women's personal interpretations of their roles, and to show how they respond to tradition and how they introduce change in their interpretations of these roles. The complexity and range of material I present therefore has resulted in a comprehensive study which is not theory-led and which draws no easy theoretical conclusions. Rather, in this thesis, I aim to make a significant contribution to the ethnographic quality of community and gender studies in Scotland.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8342

en

The University of Edinburgh

Munro, Gillian, 1992/3, 'Tradition and Innovation in the Life of a Fishernan's Wife on the Buchan Coast', (pp. 68-76) in Fenton, A., ( ed.), Review of Scottish Culture, Canongate Academic and The National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Women

Fishing villages

Community life

'I'm nae eese for nithin bit scrapin pans!' : an ethnography of the lives of young married women in a fishing community in the North East of Scotland

Thesis or Dissertation

Doctoral

PhD Doctor of Philosophy