Originally published as a special issue of the History of Education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents 1. Teaching Sisters and transnational networks: recruitment and education expansion in the long nineteenth century Deirdre Raftery 2. Education for girls in Ireland: secondary and vocational curricular provision 1930-1960 Marie Clarke 3. Gender, cosmopolitanism and transnational space and time: Kasuya Yoshi and girls' secondary education Joyce Goodman 4. Beyond centre and periphery: transnationalism in two teacher/suffragettes' work Lynne Trethewey & Kay Whitehead 5. Teaching morality and religion in nineteenth-century colonial Algeria: gender and the civilising mission Rebecca Rogers 6. Our Boys: the Christian Brothers and the formation of youth in the 'new Ireland', 1914-1944 Daire Keogh 7. Mobilising Mother Cabrini's educational practice: the transnational context of the London school of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 1898-1911 Maria Williams 8. 'A position of usefulness': gendering history of girls' education in colonial Hong Kong (1850s-1890s) Patricia Pok-kwan Chiua 9. Teacher mobility and transnational 'British World' space: the League of the Empire's 'Interchange of Home and Dominion teachers', 1907-1931 Jody Crutchley 10. They came with a purpose: educational journeys of nineteenth-century Irish Dominican Sisters Jenny Collins 11. William Graham Brooke (1835-1907): advocate of girls' superior schooling in nineteenth-century Ireland Christopher McCormack

Specialized.