This first comprehensive interdisciplinary reader for course work in Irish/Women's studies, includes 14 essays with work by Monica McWilliams, Mary Robinson (President of Ireland), Margaret MacCurtain and Ann Rossiter.

Ailbhe Smyth is Director of the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College Dublin. She has also edited Wildish Things: An Anthology of New Irish Women's Writing (Attic Press, 1989) and the The Abortion Papers (Attic, 1992).