03708nam 2200601 a 450 991082219870332120200520144314.00-268-09268-0(CKB)2560000000055234(OCoLC)694144469(CaPaEBR)ebrary10423312(SSID)ssj0000485312(PQKBManifestationID)11325618(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485312(PQKBWorkID)10609225(PQKB)11634231(MiAaPQ)EBC3440987(MdBmJHUP)muse9942(EXLCZ)99256000000005523420070621d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIreland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment /James M. Smith1st ed.Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc20071 online resource (297 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-268-04127-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.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.The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. A few years earlier, in 1993, an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their Magdalen convent to a real estate developer. The remains of 155 inmates, buried in unmarked graves on the property, were exhumed, cremated, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. This triggered a public scandal in Ireland and since then the Magdalen laundries have become an important issue in Irish culture, especially with the 2002 release of the film "The Magdalene Sisters.".WomenInstitutional careIrelandHistoryProstitutesRehabilitationIrelandHistoryChurch work with prostitutesCatholic ChurchUnmarried mothersInstitutional careIrelandHistoryReformatories for womenIrelandHistoryWomenInstitutional careHistory.ProstitutesRehabilitationHistory.Church work with prostitutesCatholic Church.Unmarried mothersInstitutional careHistory.Reformatories for womenHistory.362.83/9Smith James M.1966-1725099MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822198703321Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment4127735UNINA