The mythology of women working together

(Image by Edvard Munch)

One of my favourite stories in Irish mythology is called 'The Only Jealousy of Emer' – the Emer in question being the wife of the great warrior (but not so great husband) Cú Chulainn. I love it because it wonderfully subverts the usual 'betrayed wife' narrative, and the other cultural narratives which (even to this day) suggest th…