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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment (Record no. 237689)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 362.83/9
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Smith, James M.,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Notre Dame, Ind. :
Name of publisher University of Notre Dame Press,
Year of publication c2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xx, 275 p., [16] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill. (some col.).
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Women
Topical Term Prostitutes
Topical Term Church work with prostitutes
Topical Term Unmarried mothers
Topical Term Reformatories for women
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10423312

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