Writers Among Us: James Smith
English professor James Smith reads from Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), his study of the controversial workhouses where socially marginalized and so-called fallen women and girls were confined throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The “laundries”—named for the Magdalene movement, which originally provided refuge homes for former prostitutes—were asylums for women seen as dangerous to the moral fiber of Irish society. This event is part of the Writers Among Us series, which celebrates recent book publications by Boston College faculty. A question-and-answer session follows the talk.
Presenter(s): James Smith
Date: February 5, 2008
Location: Gasson 305
Sponsor(s): Boston College Magazine; Irish Studies Program
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/smith1/
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