Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'Fallen Women' and Their Children - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241984123ISBN-10:241984122UPC:9780241984123Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Social HistoryBook Topic:Ireland, 20th CenturySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC202RHPEW
Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'Fallen Women' and Their Children
Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of "fallen women." In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude. In the mother-and-baby homes, women who had become pregnant out of wedlock were hidden, and in most cases their babies were...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241984123ISBN-10:241984122UPC:9780241984123Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Social HistoryBook Topic:Ireland, 20th CenturySize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC202RHPEW
Caelainn Hogan's journalism has featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Yorker (online), VICE Magazine, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, The Irish Times and The Dublin Review.
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