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256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195174601
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 08 April 2004
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Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums--homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged-and many forcibly preven...
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256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195174601
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 08 April 2004
Description
Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums--homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged-and many forcibly preven...