Productive Bodies, Docile Women and Violence: Exploring ‘Respectable Work’ as Physical Abuse within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
Abstract Drawing on the Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Project, ‘Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History’, this paper explores the nature of women’s experiences in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries though the lens of forced work. I argue that the perceived nature of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Religion & gender
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-191 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ireland
/ Magdalene asylum
/ Forced labor
/ Woman
/ Violence
/ Morals
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBF British Isles NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Productivity
B Women B Oral History B Magdalene laundries B Trauma B Forced Labour B respectability |
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