Gendered Violence and Cultural Forgetting

TitleGendered Violence and Cultural Forgetting
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsJennifer Yeager, Jonathan Culleton
JournalRadical History Review
Volume2016
Issue126
Pagination134-146
ISSN01636545
Abstract

The article focuses on violence against women who were previously incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries asylum in Ireland. Topics discussed include cultural memory, gendered identities and collective memory. Other topics which includes national identity, Irish history and prostitution in the country are also discussed.

DOI10.1215/01636545-3594481