Legacies of the Magdalen laundries : commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state /: commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, Emilie Pine.
• Editors: Haughton, Miriam; (Lecturer in women's studies), McAuliffe, Mary; Pine, Emilie
• Contents: Foreword: Memory, violence, and the body – Marianne HirschAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state – Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie PinePart I Witnessing and remembering: Magdalen Laundries1 Public performance and reclaiming space: Waterford's Magdalen Laundry – Jennifer O’Mahoney, Kate McCarthy, and Jonathan Culleton2 ‘A document of truth?’ Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the McAleese Report – Lucy Simpson-Kilbane3 Unremembered in life and death: funeral and burial practices in Ireland's Magdalen Laundries – Nathalie Sebbane4 Witnessing: testimonial knowledge as ongoing memory transmission – Audrey Rousseau5 Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed in Brazil: resonances and reflections – Alinne FernandesPart II Parallel histories: then and now6 From Tuam to Birmingham: a case study of children’s homes in Ireland and the UK – Sarah-Anne Buckley and Lorraine Grimes7 Reflections on Ireland’s ‘home(s)’: shame, stigma, and grievability – Clara Fischer8 ‘He’d never have gotten a job like that if he ’ d stayed with me’ – the uneasy comedy of Philomena – Mary McGill9 ‘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 Fátharta10 Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries – Máiréad Enright11 Who is protecting who and what? The Irish state and the death of women who sell sex: a historical and contemporary analysis – Eilís Ward12 Homing in on the states we are in – Speaking of IMELDA13 Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres: our past and our present – Vukasín Nedeljkovic Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.83909415; Women -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History; Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History; Reformatories for women -- Ireland -- History; Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Ireland -- History; Church work with women -- Catholic Church
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526150790; 9781526150813
• Related ISBNs: 9781526150806
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