Through an analysis of the relationship between gendered and political meanings of space, the essays in this volume explore how multiple understandings of space and place are fashioned in different historical contexts. It was originally published as a special issue of women's History Review.

1. Introduction: Space, Place and Gendered Identities: feminist history and the spatial turn Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis and Kathryn Gleadle 2. Sexuality in Heterotopia: time, space and love between women in the historic house Alison Oram 3. Making a Scene: struggles over lesbian place-making in anglophone Canada, 1964-1984 Liz Millward 4. Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century Katie Barclay 5 Making Space: English women, letter-writing, and the life of the mind, c.1650-1750 Leonie Hannan 6. Homes Both Sides of the Microphone: the wireless and domestic space in inter-war Britain Maggie Andrews 7. Changing Spaces: art, politics, and identity in the home studios of the Suffrage Atelier Tara Morton 8. 'Unduly conscious of her sex': priesthood, female bodies, and sacred space in the Church of England Timothy Willem Jones 9. 'To console, to nurse, to prepare for eternity': the Catholic sickroom in late nineteenth-century England Carmen M. Mangion, Birkbeck