Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

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Chloe K. Gott (Independent scholar, UK) Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK)

Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Chloe K. Gott (Independent scholar, UK), Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK), Sonya Sharma (Kingston University London UK) , Sian Hawthorne (School of Oriental and African Studies University of London UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
24 August 2023

British & Irish history; Religious institutions & organisations; Social discrimination; Gender studies: women

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

How are the identities of women shaped by religious disciplinary processes in Magdalene laundries and how do women re-engage with their sense of self after leaving the institutions? Chloë K. Gott situates these questions within the current cultural climate in which the institutions now sit, considering how they fit into Ireland’s present as well as its past.

This book represents the first significant secondary analysis to be conducted of 81 oral history interviews recorded as part of the

Government of Ireland Collaborative Research project, ‘Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History’, funded by the Irish Research Council. These were taken with women formerly incarcerated in these institutions, as well as others associated with this history.

Grounded in qualitative analysis of this archive, the book is structured around the voices and words of survivors themselves. With a strong focus on how the experience of being incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry impacted on the gendered religious selves of the women, this book tracks the process of entering, working in and leaving a laundry, explored through the lens of epistemic injustice.

By: Chloe K. Gott (Independent scholar UK)
Edited by: Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK), Sonya Sharma (Kingston University London UK), Sian Hawthorne (School of Oriental and African Studies University of London UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350254466
ISBN 10: 1350254460
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chloë K. Gott is an independent scholar, UK.

Reviews for Experience, Identity & Epistemic Injustice within Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

This book offers a fascinating analysis of survivors’ own stories of the Magdalene system, including pertinent insights of life after the laundries. The stories are immensely powerful. Chloë K. Gott expertly theorizes the narratives through concepts such as respectability, silencing, bodily discipline and epistemic injustice, ultimately arguing that this was a form of vicious paternalism. An essential read for anyone interested in religion, gender, sexual regulation, power and inequality. * Sarah-Jane Page, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University, UK *