- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1 edition (15 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 026804127X
- ISBN-13: 978-0268041274
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment connects Ireland s Magdalen laundries and the nation-state s nativist politics in the post-independence era, while critically evaluating cultural representations of the Magdalen laundries that have, over the past fifteen years, recovered these institutions from the amnesia at the center of state politics. The first half of the book explores the relationship between the Magdalen laundries and the nation s architecture of containment, which rendered invisible segments of the population (e.g., illegitimate children, single mothers, the sexually promiscuous, etc.) who contradicted the state s constitutional vision for a newly independent Ireland. The book interrogates available archival resources, including government reports, legislative debates, and court cases, to assert that the state was always an active agent in the operation and function of the nation s Magdalen homes. The second half of the book considers a wide range of creative works that help imagine and give narrative form to the Magdalen experience: commercial, independent documentaries, photography and literary representations. Recent cultural reenactments, Smith argues, contribute to the emergence of an alternative national narrative that finally incorporates the women effaced by the nation s containment culture. Ultimately, the book contends that Ireland s Magdalen institutions chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation). This fascinating study will be invaluable to those interested in Irish History, Gender History and Social History.
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James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Irish Studies Program, Boston College
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Writing just three years before the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Costello explicitly links the work of religious congregations that operate Magdalen asylums with "state service."1 Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Writing just three years before the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Costello explicitly links the work of religious congregations that operate Magdalen asylums with "state service."1 Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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4 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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This is an historical text book detailing the Irish Magdalene Laundries. I mistook it for the more modern novel on the same subject. Ultimately I bought the DVD which was a brilliant portrayal of this really sad institution all the more shocking because the last of the laundries only closed in the late 1960s.
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16 May 2011
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For a paperback, this is very expensive, even for a used copy. Plus, shipping and handling is added to the price. It sounds like a well written informative book, and I would consider ordering it, if it were half the cost.
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