Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith

Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment

James M. Smith

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they ...

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