Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
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Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
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N362.839/2
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English
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xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
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 known history -- The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-cent...
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Publisher
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Indiana
Date Published
c2007.
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"Focusing on the ten Catholic Magdalen laundries operating between 1922 and 1996, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment offers the first history of women entering these institutions in the twentieth century. Because the religious orders have not opened their archival records, Smith argues that Ireland's Magdalen...
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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the nation's architecture of containment / James M. Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N362.839/2
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74VK37g0m2Ml
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK37g0m2Ml
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026804127X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268041274 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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362.839
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991023747689702626
