This fresh collection of essays examines the continued significance of gender as a marker of inequality in the lives of women across diverse contexts in Irish society. It is a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society, but exactly whose knowledge sets the economic, political, social, and cultural parameters in any given society? Contributors tackle this question by taking the reader on a gender knowledge journey through the contemporary workplace, the state and civil society and into the education and wider cultural domains. The essays demonstrate the persistence of power differentials, the resilience of gender stereotypes and the ongoing reproduction of specific kinds of gender exclusions. Ideas about gender (often outdated and ill conceived) continue to maintain existing power imbalances in tech work, finance, education, and media. Those ideas also frame public policy debates about sex work, homelessness, women's activism and reproductive rights. Finally, a gender knowledge perspective reveals the downstream impact of gender and others forms of difference and inequality in relation to the teaching profession, game culture, book reviewing and access to archival materials on historical abuse. Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: power, production and practice in Ireland will appeal to those interested in gender studies, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge.

‘”The deep-structured gender divisions .. that almost imperceptibly frame our institutions, processes and practices remain largely intact,” according to Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender, an important collection of well-researched essays for UCD Press’. Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, August 2020 |||| ‘Crowe makes the case that both church and State need to hugely improve access to their archives, for the sake of survivors who need personal information and for the sake of scholarship, which can help us to make sense of this extraordinary story. In this extract she shares two stories which display both the unreliable way archives have been managed and the importance of making sure archives survive.’ Catriona Crowe, writing in the Irish Times July 2020 |||| "This work represents a significant and original contribution to the field by bringing together diverse scholarly work that is connected through an understanding of the ways in which gender knowledge is produced and/or functions". "A key strength of the collection is its weaving together of hot off the press research findings with contemporary debates in gender and feminist theory and the politics of knowledge".....

Mary P. Corcoran is professor of sociology at Maynooth University. Pauline Cullen is a lecturer in sociology at Maynooth University.