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Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland

By Lisa M. Bitel

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780801485442, 080143095X, 0801485444
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
74 MB (78085581 bytes)
Edition
First Trade Paperback
Pages
328\326
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 06:32:10

Description

"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."―Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems "It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."―Times Higher Education Supplement

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