Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland

Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
Author: S. Sheehan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781349296613

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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.


Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: S. Sheehan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-05 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fres
Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: S. Sheehan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-05 - Publisher: Springer

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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fres
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Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Sarah Sheehan
Categories:
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This thesis examines early Irish ideas of sexual difference through five thematic studies of the construction of gender in Irish saga texts. Its readings analyz
Land of Women
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Lisa M. Bitel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"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,
Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Helen Oxenham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.