Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, James M., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reformatories for women > Ireland > History.
Unmarried mothers > Institutional care > Ireland > History.
Church work with prostitutes > Catholic Church.
Prostitutes > Rehabilitation > Ireland > History.
Women > Institutional care > Ireland > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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