"This collection of essays had its origins in a conference hosted by the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College, Dublin" - Introd.
Contents: The writing of religious women's history : Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779-1865) / Phil Kilroy
Pious occupations : female activism and the Catholic revival in eighteenth-century Ireland / Rosemary Raughter
Discovering Irish nuns in the nineteenth-century United States : the case of Chicago / Suellen Hoy
Gender, public disorder and the Salvation Army in Ireland, 1880-82 / Janice Holmes
'Women's work for women' : the Irish Presbyterian Zenana Mission, 1874-1914 / Myrtle Hill
Convent archives as sources for Irish history / Maria Luddy
J'ai mal à nos dents / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.
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Religious women and their history : breaking the silence. ISBN 071652760X. Published by Irish Academic Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
