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Author Smith, James M., 1966-

Title Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.

Publication Info. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  HV1448.I73 S65 2007    Available  ---
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.
Women -- Institutional care.
Ireland.
History.
Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Ireland -- History.
Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation.
Prostitutes.
Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church.
Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church.
Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History.
Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care.
Unmarried mothers.
Reformatories for women -- Ireland -- History.
Reformatories for women.
Women.
Womyn.
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