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Land of Women - Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Paperback, New edition)
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Land of Women - Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Paperback, New edition)
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In Land of Women, Lisa M. Bitel systematically recovers the
almost-lost society that women and men created together in Ireland.
Europe between the coming of Christianity and the year 1000 has
been portrayed as a world where women were either subservient to
men or in rebellion against them. Bitel argues, however, that the
women and men of early medieval Ireland did not always submit to
patriarchal ideals of institutionalized oppression. Bitel analyzes
the social roles, both restrictive and empowering, played by women
in Ireland between about 700 and 1100. She focuses first on sex,
love, marriage, and motherhood. She examines the economic
strategies that women developed and the social networks they built
in the face of men's desire to restrict their mobility. In the
process, she explains the often conflicting ideas about women
expressed by the writers of medieval Irish texts - a small group of
literate men vowed to a religion that has always been ambivalent
toward the female sex - which derived from both Christian and
secular Celtic heritages. She concludes by examining the violent
and powerful images of women common in the medieval literature of
Ireland, asking why men's texts consistently depicted women
negatively when men and women interacted in a wide variety of ways.
Ultimately, Bitel maintains, early Ireland hosted a set of gender
relations every bit as flexible, contradictory, and complex as our
own.
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