Do penance or perish: A study of Magdalen asylums in Ireland - Hardcover

Finnegan, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0954092104 ISBN 13: 9780954092108

Publisher: Congrave Press, 2001

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Frances Finnegan is at Waterford Institute of Technology.

Review:

"She provides valuable information about the nature of Magdalen asylum system in Ireland." --History: Review of Books

"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 perpetuated cruelty 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Congrave Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0954092104
• ISBN 13: 9780954092108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256