Missing Elements

Rosalind Mitchison

• Strategic Women: How do they manage in Scotland? by Elizabeth Gerver and Lesley Hart
  Aberdeen University Press, 216 pp, £9.95, June 1991, ISBN 0 08 037741 6
• A Guid Cause: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland by Leah Leneman
  Aberdeen University Press, 304 pp, £11.95, June 1991, ISBN 0 08 041201 7
• Marriage and Property: Women and Marital Customs in History edited by Elizabeth Craik
  Aberdeen University Press, 192 pp, £6.95, June 1991, ISBN 0 08 041205 X
• A Woman’s Claim of Right in Scotland
  Polygon, 142 pp, £7.95, August 1991, ISBN 0 7486 6103 4
• Nationalism in the Nineties edited by Tom Gallagher
  Polygon, 192 pp, £7.95, August 1991, ISBN 0 7486 6098 4
• Cultural Weapons: Scotland and Survival in a New Europe by Christopher Harvie
  Polygon, 119 pp, £7.95, March 1992, ISBN 0 7486 6122 0
• Literature and Nationalism edited by Vincent Newey and Ann Thompson
  Liverpool, 286 pp, £27.50, June 1991, ISBN 0 85323 057 9
• The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth of the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the present by Murray Pittock
  Routledge, 198 pp, £30.00, September 1991, ISBN 0 415 05586 5
• Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
  Century, 499 pp, £18.99, August 1991, ISBN 0 7126 3413 4

In all our sets of mental pigeonholes there is one labelled ‘don’t bother’. It contains groups of people and of ideas to which we have decided not to pay attention. These books, in one way or another, relate to such groups.