Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.

Author/creator Smith, James M., 1966-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
Descriptionxx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007025510
ISBN9780268041274 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN026804127X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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