Description: A comparative study of female representation in famine literature ranging from 19th century accounts of the Irish famine to 20th century famine in Bengal.
Review Quotes: "Kelleher's book is a major contribution to work on famine and will have to be reckoned with by all future writers on the topic. It opens the terrain of gender for Irish famine studies, which has not been adequately addressed before, and counts as a work of prime and revisionary scholarship."--David Lloyd, University of California at Berkeley