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The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland
A Material Culture View of Irish Shame, Oppression, Morality and Repression
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The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland
A Material Culture View of Irish Shame, Oppression, Morality and Repression
About this book
The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland presents a textiles and material culture view of Irish shame, oppression, morality and repression.
Ireland – North and South – has sustained significant change in the last 100 years, accelerating at the end of the 20th century with the legalization of contraception, divorce, gay marriage, the end of the 'Troubles', and freedom to choose abortion and reproductive autonomy. In parallel to this, troubling instances of abuse, repression and cruelty have come to light through a series of scandals. These included the exploitation of unmarried mothers as unpaid labour in laundries, the deaths of women and babies in mishandled miscarriages, the unhealthy entanglement of Church and State, and the intolerance shown to 'visible Irish and immigrant minorities' in the so-called 'land of a thousand welcomes'.
This collection of specially commissioned essays tells the stories of cloth, clothing, textiles and materials that have been actually or symbolically stained by blood or other bodily fluids in Ireland's last 100 years. By focusing on the role of these materials in the events and experiences of shame, oppression, morality and repression, the book 'lances the boil' of Irish social history, celebrating the movement of the island of Ireland into post-Church, post-conflict, post-nostalgia modernity that, while a painful transition, is a vital part of coming to terms with its past and looking to its future.
Ireland – North and South – has sustained significant change in the last 100 years, accelerating at the end of the 20th century with the legalization of contraception, divorce, gay marriage, the end of the 'Troubles', and freedom to choose abortion and reproductive autonomy. In parallel to this, troubling instances of abuse, repression and cruelty have come to light through a series of scandals. These included the exploitation of unmarried mothers as unpaid labour in laundries, the deaths of women and babies in mishandled miscarriages, the unhealthy entanglement of Church and State, and the intolerance shown to 'visible Irish and immigrant minorities' in the so-called 'land of a thousand welcomes'.
This collection of specially commissioned essays tells the stories of cloth, clothing, textiles and materials that have been actually or symbolically stained by blood or other bodily fluids in Ireland's last 100 years. By focusing on the role of these materials in the events and experiences of shame, oppression, morality and repression, the book 'lances the boil' of Irish social history, celebrating the movement of the island of Ireland into post-Church, post-conflict, post-nostalgia modernity that, while a painful transition, is a vital part of coming to terms with its past and looking to its future.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Materials, Memory and Magdalene Laundries
- 2 Close-Knit: Mother Ireland and Her Dirty Laundry
- 3 The Irish for Burial Place
- 4 Buried with Care: CillÃnà Shroud Pins
- 5 Gothic Kerry Noir
- 6 Clothed by the Devil
- 7 Missionary Blood
- 8 On the Rag
- 9 Bleeding from a Cut above Her Left Eye
- 10 Embracing the Hijab: Veiled and Empowered
- 11 Isidore Nguimbi
- 12 DNA Doesn’t Lie: Black Descendants of Irish Slaveholders
- 13 The Beady Pocket
- 14 A Map of Ireland: Blood, Semen, Skin
- 15 Dirt-Stained and Degraded Clothing in Irish Literature
- 16 Blood on Your Hands
- 17 She Was in Her Night Attire
- 18 Bleeding Women: Gender, Conflict and Resistance
- 19 Threadbare Resistance: Solidarity and Materiality
- 20 Giving the (Married) Woman a Normal Pelvis
- 21 Symphysiotomy and Law’s Many-Tailed Binder
- 22 A Crazy Group of Activists
- 23 Picking Scabs, Pain Portraits
- Editor’s Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- Copyright