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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
ISBN
9780268041274 (pbk. : alk. paper)
026804127X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 05, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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