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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frances Finnegan |
ISBN: | 0195174607 9780195174601 |
OCLC Number: | 123124614 |
Notes: | Originally published: Piltown, Co. Kilkenny : Congrave Press, 2001. |
Description: | xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. "Patented villains" -- 2. "Never free from their espionage" -- 3. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Limerick -- 4. "A citadel of piety" -- 5 The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, New Ross -- 6. "Do penance or perish" -- 7. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Cork (part 2). |
Responsibility: | Frances Finnegan. |
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"The definitive account of the Magdalen Asylums..." -The Guardian "Frances Finnegan's pioneering works on poverty and prostitution in Victorian Britain are classics, and so is this beautifully-produced book, the eagerly-awaited fruit of two decades' research. This is what social history should be... This excellent book represents a coming of age for Irish women's history... This is 'nasty' women's history; as feminist historians we will have to find a way of understanding (without excusing) women who perpetrated and perpetuatedcruelty and inhumanity." -Women's Studies "There is much fascinating detail, prompting questions about class, power, and religion... Frances Finnegan, provocatively sympathetic to her subject, has written a book that ascribes significance to lives that were carefully hidden" -Saothar, the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society Read more...


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