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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
- Author
- Smith, James M., 1966-
- Title
- Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
- Description
- xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007025510.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Prostitution--Ireland. Prostitutes--Ireland. Prostitutes rehabilitation. Prostitution history--Ireland. Unwed mothers--Ireland.
- ISBN
- 9780268041274 (pbk. : alk. paper) 026804127X (pbk. : alk. paper)