Deze bundel bevat een aantal bijdragen over vrouw, kerk, enstaat, voor de 21e Ierse conferentie van historici overvrouwengeschiedenis, gehouden in Queen's University in Belfastin 1993. De volgende artikelen zijn opgenomen: The historywomen / door Joan Thirsk; A woman in history : Eileen Power andthe Early years of social history and women's history / doorMaxine Berg; 'Scolding old bags and whingn hags' : the myth ofcompatible paradigms in history / door Maria Grever; Late inthe field : catholic sisters in twentieth-century Ireland andthe new religious history / door Margaret MacCurtain; Women andthe law in Early Ireland / door Donnchadh O Corrain; The LexInnocentium : Adomnan's law for women, clerics and youths, 697A.D. / door Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha; The Banshenchas revisisted /door Muireann Ni Bhrolchain; Women, the church and the law :matrimonial litigation in Lucca under Bishop Nicolao Guinigi(1394-1435) / door Christine Meek; 'Almost a gentlewoman' :gender and adolescence in the diary of Mary Shackleton / doorKevin O'Neill; The roles of royal and aristocratic women inBritish politics, c.1782-1832 / door P.J. Jupp; JoliesFemmes/feisty women : the images of Edouard de Beuamont / doorLaura Strumingher Schor; Writing for the birds : women foundersof the Society for the Protection of Birds / door Barbara T.Gates; Jane Addams and the Great Railway Strike of 1894 :towards a (reconstructed) universalist ethic / door MarianYeates; Neither feminist nor flapper : the ecclesiasticalconstruction of the ideal Irish woman / door Maryann Valiulis;The women can not be blamed : the Commission on vocationalorganisation, feminism and home-makers in independent Irelandin the 1930s and '40s / door Caitriona Clear; Emigration andGender : the case of Ireland 1920-60 / door Pauric Travers; Darklady of the archives : towards an analysis of women andemigration to North America in Irish folklore / door GraceNeville; Fanaticism and excess : or The defence of just causes: the International Labour Organisation and women's protectivelegislation in the Inter-War Years / door Mary E. Daly; Genderideologies, social experts and immigrant women in EarlyPost-World War Two Canada : Ontario, 1940s-'60s / door FrancaIacovetta; Women in Northern Ireland / door Catherine B.Shannon; Comparative analysis of abortion in Ireland, Polandand the United States / door Joan Hoff; Women and citizenshipin the European Union / door Elizabeth Meehan.