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Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries
eBook - Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state
ISBN/EAN: 9781526150790
Umbreit-Nr.: 5131659
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 296 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 23.11.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of gender, sexuality, identity, class, race and religion. This kind of intersectional history is vital not only in looking back but, in looking forward, to identify the ways in which structural callousness still marks Irish society. Essays include historical analysis of the ways in which women and children were incarcerated in residential institutions, Irelands Direct Provision system, the policing of female bodily autonomy though legislation on prostitution and abortion, in addition to the legacies of the Magdalen laundries. This collection also considers how artistic practice and commemoration have acted as vital interventions in social attitudes and public knowledge, helping to create knowledge and re-shape social attitudes towards this history.
- Kurztext
- Magdalen history has long been marginalised. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the lives of women regarded as marginal are still excluded. This collection examines how Magdalen history can contribute to a more nuanced, inclusive understanding of post-independence Irish history.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway<br><br>Mary McAuliffe is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at University College Dublin<br><br>Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin</p>