Description |
xx, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index. |
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. |
Subject |
Women -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History.
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Women -- Institutional care. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
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Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Ireland -- History.
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Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation. |
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Prostitutes. |
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Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church.
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Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church. |
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Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History.
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Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care. |
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Unmarried mothers. |
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Reformatories for women -- Ireland -- History.
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Reformatories for women. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
ISBN |
9780268041274 paperback alkaline paper |
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026804127X paperback alkaline paper |
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