Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment [[electronic resource] /] / James M. Smith

• Autore: Smith James M. <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.83/9
• Soggetto topico: Reformatories for women - Ireland - History; Unmarried mothers - Institutional care - Ireland - History; Church work with prostitutes - Catholic Church; Prostitutes - Rehabilitation - Ireland - History; Women - Institutional care - Ireland - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
• ISBN: 0-268-09268-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791675203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II