The first in-depth analysis of Middle Irish literature from a feminist standpoint, and the first formal critical discussion of the representation of female speech in medieval Irish literature.

Joanne Findon is a sessional lecturer in the Department of English both at York University and the University of Toronto (Erindale campus). She has also published a children's book titled The Dream of Aengus.

'A Woman's Words: Emer and Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle is a readable and provocative piece of work. It presents an underappreciated body of literature to a general audience in a timely and accessible manner and provides an admirably contextualized reading not only of the role of Emer, but of the shifting position of Irish women in the period immediately before the Norman Conquest.'