Memorialising the Magdalene Laundries; From Story to History

ISBN-13: 9781787075894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 318 str.

Nathalie Sebbane

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Introduction - .Excavating, uncovering and exposing - How the media made the story - Popular culture as transitional narratives - Emerging memory - .Recovering memory - Witnessing and testifying: The role of advocacy support groups - The political response - .Memorialising and commemorating the laundries - Lest we forget - Shared remembrance and contested memories - Conclusion.

O autorze

Nathalie Sebbane is a senior lecturer in British and Irish Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. She specializes in Irish social history, examining in particular women's history, the links between Church and State, sexual politics, institutional abuse - particularly the Magdalene laundries and memory studies. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on The Magdalene laundries, feminist issues, abortion, child abuse, unmarried mothers, illegitimacy and the Great Famine.