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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
Author: James M. Smith
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 were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780268041274
ISBN-10: 026804127X
Publication Date: 9/28/2007
Pages: 312
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Book Type: Paperback
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