This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of womenâs history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources methodologies and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family reproduction and sexuality the medical and prison systems masculinities and femininities institutions charity the missions migration âelite womenâ and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological the book provides insight into the comparative transnational and connected histories of Ireland India and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history gender studies colonialism post-colonialism European history Irish history Irish studies and political history. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. . Language: English