Experience Identity Epistemic Injustice Within Ireland S Magdalene Laundries

Author : Chloe K. Gott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350254442

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Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries by Chloe K. Gott Pdf

How are the identities of women shaped by religious disciplinary processes in Magdalene laundries and how do women re-engage with their sense of self after leaving the institutions? Chloë K. Gott situates these questions within the current cultural climate in which the institutions now sit, considering how they fit into Ireland's present as well as its past. This book represents the first significant secondary analysis to be conducted of 81 oral history interviews recorded as part of the Government of Ireland Collaborative Research project, 'Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History', funded by the Irish Research Council. These were taken with women formerly incarcerated in these institutions, as well as others associated with this history. Grounded in qualitative analysis of this archive, the book is structured around the voices and words of survivors themselves. With a strong focus on how the experience of being incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry impacted on the gendered religious selves of the women, this book tracks the process of entering, working in and leaving a laundry, explored through the lens of epistemic injustice.

Author : Chloe K. Gott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Reformatories for women
ISBN : 1350254452

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Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice Within Ireland's Magdalene Laundries by Chloe K. Gott Pdf

1.Introduction: Survivor Narratives and Unfinished Histories -- 2. Epistemic Injustice and Credible Subjects -- 3. Silence, Voice and the Ethics of Communication -- 4. Inside the Institution: Discipline and Penance -- 5. Fractured Endings and New Meanings: Religion and Respectability -- 6. Public Silence and Official Voice: Inquiry, Apology and Redress -- 7. Conclusion: Challenging a Lingering Silence -- Appendix A: List of Magdalene Institutions -- Appendix B: List of interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Mark Coen,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350279063

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A Dublin Magdalene Laundry by Mark Coen,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke Pdf

Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation and scholarship. Bringing together contributions from leading experts across a broad range of disciplines, including history, philosophy, law, archaeology, criminology, accounting and architecture, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Magdalene system through a close study of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. To date, the Justice for Magdalenes Research group has recorded the names of 315 women and girls who died at Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry. By focusing on this one institution-on its ethos, development, operation and built environment, and the lives of the girls and women held there-this book reveals the underlying framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden' institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing history. In undertaking such a close study, the authors uncover truths missing from the state's own investigations; shed new light on how these brutal institutions came to have such a powerful presence in Irish society, and highlight the significance of their continuing impact on modern Ireland.

Author : Susan J. Palmer,Dilmurat Mahmut,Abdulmuqtedir Udun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350418356

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Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora by Susan J. Palmer,Dilmurat Mahmut,Abdulmuqtedir Udun Pdf

Presenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political engagement. Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman, after personally experiencing incidents of ethnic discrimination, chose to leave China before 2005. Settling in a western country, they strive to become the voice of the Turkic people who are silenced or detained in the “re-education” camps. The narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history. The book focuses on the escalating tensions, turning points experienced in their youth, and the religious, political and psychological factors that prompted their transformations in self-identity, ideology and the emergence of a new Uyghur–Muslim feminism. Through the women's stories, the book describes how women activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively restorying a genocide to bring about social and political change.

Author : Sarah-Jane Page
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031546921

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Abortion and Catholicism in Britain by Sarah-Jane Page Pdf

Author : Sue Anderson-Faithful,Catherine Holloway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350324190

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Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861-1938 by Sue Anderson-Faithful,Catherine Holloway Pdf

This book covers new ground in its focus on the Anglican Church congresses 1861-1938 as a public space in which the views of notable women were widely disseminated. It celebrates the contribution made by women to public life and discourse on womanhood as platform speakers, and commemorates the presence of the large numbers of women who joined congresses as audience members. Original research draws on extensive primary sources from official records, diaries and the press to capture women's views and voices and to evoke congress as a communicative social space and a window into topical affairs. Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861-1938 examines the roles of women in the Church and reflects on how women with a sense of vocation negotiated contemporary attitudes to their positions and spirituality. The book also explores how women's secular aspirations towards citizenship in the context of poverty, work, temperance, eugenics, class and suffrage played out at congress.

Author : Sonya Sharma,Dawn Llewellyn,Sîan Hawthorne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350257184

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality by Sonya Sharma,Dawn Llewellyn,Sîan Hawthorne Pdf

Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of the dynamic ways religion, gender and sexuality operate. Applying feminist, intersectional, and reflexive approaches, the volume aims to loosen imperialist and exclusionary figurations that have underwritten and tethered religion, gender, and sexuality together. While holding onto the field of inquiry, the Handbook offers contributions that interrogate and untie it from the terms and conditions that have formed it. The volume is organized into thematic sections: - Forces and Futures - Activisms and Labors - Agencies and Practices - Relationships and Institutions - Texts and Objects Chapters range across religious, geographical, historical, political, and social contexts and feature an array of case-studies, experiences, and topics that exemplify the reflexive intention of the volume, including explorations of race, whiteness, colonialism, and the institutional intolerance of minority groups. Contributors also advance new areas of research in religion including artificial intelligence, farming, migrant mothering, child sexual abuse, mediatization, national security, legal frameworks, addiction and recovery, decolonial hermeneutics, creative arts, sport, sexual practices, and academic friendship. This is an essential contribution to the fields of religious studies and gender and sexuality studies.

Author : Caroline Starkey,Emma Tomalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429883170

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society by Caroline Starkey,Emma Tomalin Pdf

In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. In both the Global South and the Global North, in the 21st century, religiosity is of continuing significance, not only in people’s private lives and in the family, but also in the public sphere and with respect to political and legal systems. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is an outstanding reference source to these key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject area. Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 3 parts: Critical debates for religions, gender and society: theories, concepts and methodologies Issues and themes in religions, gender and society Contexts and locations Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including activism, gender analysis, intersectionality and feminism, oppression and liberation, equality, bodies and embodiment, space and place, leadership and authority, diaspora and migration, marriage and the family, generation and aging, health and reproduction, education, violence and conflict, ecology and climate change and the role of social media. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, politics, sociology, anthropology and history.

Author : Claire McGettrick,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke,James M. Smith,Mari Steed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755617500

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Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries by Claire McGettrick,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke,James M. Smith,Mari Steed Pdf

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as well as psychological and physical maltreatment. Using the Irish State's own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Ireland's Magdalene institutions. The book offers an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries documents the ongoing work carried out by the Justice for Magdalenes group in advancing public knowledge and research into Magdalene Laundries, and how the Irish State continues to evade its responsibilities not just to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in providing a truthful account of what happened. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, this book reveals the fundamental flaws in the state's investigation and how the treatment of the burials, exhumation and cremation of former Magdalene women remains a deeply troubling issue today, emblematic of the system of torture and studious official neglect in which the Magdalene women lived their lives. The Authors are donating all royalties in the name of the women who were held in the Magdalenes to EPIC (Empowering People in Care).

Author : Rebecca Lea McCarthy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786455805

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Origins of the Magdalene Laundries by Rebecca Lea McCarthy Pdf

The convents, asylums, and laundries that once comprised the Magdalene institutions are the subject of this work. Though originally half-way homes for prostitutes in the Middle Ages, these homes often became forced-labor institutions, particularly in Ireland. Examining the laundries within the context of a growing world capitalist economy, the work argues that the process of colonization, and of defining a national image, determined the nature and longevity of the Magdalene Laundries. This process developed differently in Ireland, where the last laundry closed in 1996. The book focuses on the devolution of the significance of Mary Magdalene as a metaphor for the organization: from an affluent, strong supporter of Jesus to a simple, fallen woman.

Author : James M. Smith
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268182182

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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith Pdf

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. A few years earlier, in 1993, an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their Magdalen convent to a real estate developer. The remains of 155 inmates, buried in unmarked graves on the property, were exhumed, cremated, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave. This triggered a public scandal in Ireland and since then the Magdalen laundries have become an important issue in Irish culture, especially with the 2002 release of the film The Magdalene Sisters. Focusing on the ten Catholic Magdalen laundries operating between 1922 and 1996, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment offers the first history of women entering these institutions in the twentieth century. Because the religious orders have not opened their archival records, Smith argues that Ireland's Magdalen institutions continue to exist in the public mind primarily at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation). Addressed to academic and general readers alike, James M. Smith's book accomplishes three primary objectives. First, it connects what history we have of the Magdalen laundries to Ireland's “architecture of containment” that made undesirable segments of the female population such as illegitimate children, single mothers, and sexually promiscuous women literally invisible. Second, it critically evaluates cultural representations in drama and visual art of the laundries that have, over the past fifteen years, brought them significant attention in Irish culture. Finally, Smith challenges the nation—church, state, and society—to acknowledge its complicity in Ireland's Magdalen scandal and to offer redress for victims and survivors alike.

Author : Andrew Dawson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441154248

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Santo Daime by Andrew Dawson Pdf

Introduces the Brazilian new religion and treats it in relation to ongoing developments influencing the status, nature and future of religion in the modern world.

Author : Alex Norman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441165190

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Spiritual Tourism by Alex Norman Pdf

This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society.

Author : Mathew Guest,Kristin Aune,Sonya Sharma,Rob Warner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780936215

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Christianity and the University Experience by Mathew Guest,Kristin Aune,Sonya Sharma,Rob Warner Pdf

What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from any existing religious convictions, heightening the appeal of a rationalist secularism increasingly dominant in wider society. And yet Christianity remains highly visible on university campuses and continues to be a prominent identity marker in the lives of many students. Analysing over 4,000 responses to a national survey of students and nearly 100 interviews with students and those working with them, this book examines Christianity in universities across England. It explores the beliefs, values and practices of Christian students. It reveals how the university experience influences their Christian identities, and the influence Christian students have upon university life. Christianity and the University Experience makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the survival and evolution of religion in the contemporary world. It offers fresh insights relevant to those working with Christian students, including churches, chaplaincies and student organisations, as well as policy-makers and university managers interested in the significance of religion for education, social responsibility and social cohesion.

Author : Marianne Rankin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826498212

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An Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience by Marianne Rankin Pdf

Spiritual experiences, mystical and near-death incidences are interpreted from scientific, philosophical and religious viewpoints.