Abstract
This essay provides a stocktaking of the research achievements to date on women’s and gender history in the Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino region. The text is divided into the following thematic sections: biographies, piety, marriage and family, body – motherhood – psychiatry, economy, work, emigration, school and education, politics and feminism, war and regime, crime, deviation and legal sources. It gives detailed insights into the previous research on these comprehensive and central topics of women’s and gender history from the Middle Ages to recent times. The introduction also considers mediation efforts, and in the conclusion some research desiderata are presented, such as gender relations and historical masculinity models and practices.