Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
Smith, James M., 1966-
Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment [electronic resource] / James M. Smith. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007. - xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Women--Institutional care--History.--Ireland
Prostitutes--Rehabilitation--History.--Ireland
Church work with prostitutes--Catholic Church.
Unmarried mothers--Institutional care--History.--Ireland
Reformatories for women--History.--Ireland
Electronic books.
HV1448.I73 / S65 2007eb
362.83/9
Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment [electronic resource] / James M. Smith. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007. - xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Women--Institutional care--History.--Ireland
Prostitutes--Rehabilitation--History.--Ireland
Church work with prostitutes--Catholic Church.
Unmarried mothers--Institutional care--History.--Ireland
Reformatories for women--History.--Ireland
Electronic books.
HV1448.I73 / S65 2007eb
362.83/9