title: Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland
author:  Lisa M. Bitel 
description: "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<br /><br />"Lisa M. Bitel's extraordinary excavation of pre-modern women's lives . . . is useful and fascinating. . . . Male-authored medieval texts provide access to prevailing gender ideologies and at the same time reflect anxieties about how these ideologies were threatened by the productive reality of women's lives. . . . As Bitel shows in her beautifully written account, early Ireland witnessed a wide range and flexibility in gender relations."Nancy J. Curtin, Lingua Franca<br /><br />"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<br /><br />"An overview of this kind is not an easy undertaking. . . If by provoking the specialists Bitel gives an impulse to the indispensible groundwork, she fully deserves our gratitude."Doris Edel, Utrecht University
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  The Highlander’s Maiden
   
   
  By
   
  Carole Archer
   
  Copyright © 2013 by Stormy Night Publications and Carole Archer
   
   
  
   
   
  Copyright © 2013 by Stormy Night Publications and Carole Archer
   
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage
  and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
   
  Published by Stormy Night Publications and Design, LLC.
  www.StormyNightPublications.com
   
   
  Archer, Carole
  The Highlander’s Maiden
   
  Cover Design by Korey Mae Johnson
  Image by Jenn LeBlanc
   
  This book is intended for adults only. Spanking and other sexual activities represented in this book
  are fantasies only, intended for adults.
   
  
  Chapter One
   
   
  Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland - 1603
   
  Alroy Hogan arrived at the small castle where Colleen and Kaitlyn O’Shea waited anxiously for
  news of their father, Lord Michael O’Shea. Unfortu