Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, James M., 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, |
| Description | xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007025510 |
| ISBN | 9780268041274 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 026804127X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |