Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith
2007, First Edition. Manchester University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #435645
ISBN: 9780719078880
Physical description; xx, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color). Notes; 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. Subjects; Magdalen Laundries (Ireland). Women Institutional care Ireland History. Prostitutes Rehabilitation Ireland History. Church work with prostitutes Catholic Church. Unmarried mothers Institutional care Ireland History. Reformatories for women Ireland History. History, Women.
Price: €28.00