Wash Away Your Sins
Indigenous and Irish Women in Magdalene Laundries and the Poetics of Errant Histories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2500514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah A Whitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17953/a3.1344 |
| OpenAlex | W4388451940 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
The history of Magdalene laundries in Ireland is well-documented. Magdalene laundries also existed in the U.S., but their existence and impact are less widely known. In 1914, several young Indigenous women were sent from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to the House of the Good Shepherd in Reading, Pennsylvania as punishment for perceived behavioral infractions. Placing Indigenous and Irish women's experiences of forced confinement into conversation with one another, this article calls for a more capacious understanding of the legacy of the U.S. federal boarding school system and the carceral institutions that comprised the settler apparatus
Art · Conversation · Criminology · Indigenous · Irish · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Federal Fathers and Mothers
The Boarding School as Metaphor
Habits of Compassion
City of Inmates
The Early Days of the Magdalen Society of Philadelphia
Fallen Women
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries
Committed
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Felt Theory
Mark my words
Decarcerating Disability
American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling
Domestic Subjects
Domesticity in the federal Indian schools
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |