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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment /

"Focusing on the ten Catholic Magdalen laundries operating between 1922 and 1996, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment offers the first history of women entering these institutions in the twentieth century. Because the religious orders have not ope...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, James M., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)
  • The Magdalen asylum and history: mining the archive
  • The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland
  • The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-century Ireland
  • The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland
  • Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained glass at Samhain
  • (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen survivors: visual representations and documentary testimony
  • The Magdalene sisters: film, fact and fiction
  • Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: art installations and cultural memory
  • Conclusion: history, cultural representation ... action?
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.