Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries : commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state / [edited by] Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe and Emilie Pine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haughton, Miriam, editor.

McAuliffe, Mary (Lecturer in women's studies), editor.

Pine, Emilie, editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Institutional care--Ireland--History.

Women.

Unmarried mothers--Institutional care--Ireland--History.

Unmarried mothers.

Reformatories for women--Ireland--History.

Reformatories for women.

Prostitutes--Rehabilitation--Ireland--History.

Prostitutes.

Church work with women--Catholic Church.

Church work with women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Magdalen history has long been marginalised in public discourse. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines the ways in which Magdalen history can contribute to a much more nuanced and inclusive understanding of how we narrativize post-independence Irish history.

Contents:

Part 1. Witnessing and remembering Magdalen Laundries. Public performance and reclaiming space : Waterford’s Magdalen Laundry / Jennifer O’Mahoney, Kate McCarthy, and Jonathan Culleton

‘A document of truth?’ Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the McAleese Report / Lucy Simpson-Kilbane

Unremembered in life and death : Funeral and burial practices in Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries / Nathalie Sebbane

Witnessing : Testimonial knowledge as ongoing memory transmission / Audrey Rousseau

Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed in Brazil : Resonances and reflections / Alinne Fernandes

Part 2. Parallel histories : then and now. From Tuam to Birmingham : A case study of children’s homes in Ireland and the UK / Sarah-Anne Buckley and Lorraine Grimes

Reflections on Ireland’s ‘home(s)’ : Shame, stigma, and grievability / Clara Fischer

‘He’d never have gotten a job like that if he’d stayed with me’ : the uneasy comedy of Philomena / Mary McGill

'That stuff is FOI-able … and it could be used against us if someone takes a case’: Unlawful adoption in the past and the present : how much has changed? / Conall Ó Fátharta

Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries / Máiréad Enright

Who is protecting who and what? The Irish state and the death of women who sell sex : A historical and contemporary analysis / Eilís Ward

Homing in on the states we are in / Speaking of IMELDA

Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres : Our past and our present / Vukasín Nedeljković.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526166555

1526166550

9781526150790

1526150794

9781526150813

1526150816

OCLC:

1286802937