| Land of Women Contributor(s): Bitel, Lisa M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080143095X ISBN-13: 9780801430954 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 95039296 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.39" W x 9.55" (1.40 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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: PoemsIt 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Bitel, Lisa M.: - Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women and Isle of the Saints, both from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100. |
