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Product Description: The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland.  Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800...read more

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9780582404298 | Taylor & Francis, January 29, 2005, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland.

Product Description: Assessing the role of women in Ireland between 1500 and 1800 - a period of considerable social and economic change, this volume examines Irish women in their domestic, political and religious activities. It looks at prejudices against women in the medical texts of the period; women's experience of education; the impact upon women of Gaelic law; women and childbirth; and the different opportunities offered by Catholicism and Protestantism, amongst other subjects...read more

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9780748602230 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: The Irish woman is looked at in all her activities, domestic, political and religious following the Reformation, military conquest, land settlement and the impact of the Enlightenment and the French and American revolutions.

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9780748602414 | Reprint edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 1992), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Assessing the role of women in Ireland between 1500 and 1800 - a period of considerable social and economic change, this volume examines Irish women in their domestic, political and religious activities.

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