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