
Land of Women
Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland
Lisa M. Bitel(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 18. April 1996
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-8014-3095-4 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-3095-4 (9780801430954)
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Person
Lisa M. Bitel is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, also from Cornell.