Accueil
Sélection de la langue
Adresse
Centre Culturel Irlandaiscontact
| Titre : | The Condition of Female Laundry Workers in Ireland 1922-1996 : A Case of Labour Camps on Trial (2012) |
| Auteurs : | Eva URBAN, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 37 n 2 2012) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 49-64 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | |
| Résumé : | This paper examines the class dimension of the unresolved issue of the unlawful detention of women as unpaid workers in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries between 1922 and 1996 within the context of a Marxist-feminist critique of current postfeminist concepts. The analysis highlights the social and political failure of Irish society and the Irish government to engage fully with their historical responsibility for unlawful labour camps operating in the state within this time period, and focuses on the breaches of human rights effected by the very existence of these institutions. In Ireland, a particular danger is attached to replacing feminist discourses with a concept such as post-feminism that aims to render the former obsolete, because a complete historical analysis and understanding of gender issues has by no means been completed. In 2011 one of the most pressing unresolved social issues of importance in Ireland, not only from a feminist perspective, but also a general social justice and worker's rights perspective, still remains the case of the unpaid female workers in the labour camps known as Magdalene Laundries |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Eva Urban |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
