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  Magdalen Asylum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magdalen Asylums were institutions for so-called "fallen" women, most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church.
Magdalen Asylums grew out of the rescue movement in Britain and Ireland in the 19th century, which had as its formal goal the rehabilitation of women who had worked as prostitutes.
As the Magdalen movement became increasingly distant from the original ideas of the Rescue Movement, that is, to take prostitutes off the streets who would not find regular employment because of their background, the Asylums took on an increasingly prison-like character.
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 Magdalen Asylum - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Magdalen Asylums grew out of the "rescue movement" in Britain and Ireland in the 19th century, which had as its formal goal therehabilitation of women who had worked as prostitutes.
In Ireland, theinstitutions were named for Mary Magdalene, a character in the Biblewho, according to Catholic tradition, repented her sins and became one of Jesus' closest followers.
As the Magdalen movement became increasingly distant from the original ideas of the "Rescue" movement, that is, to takeprostitutes off the streets who would not find regular employment because of their background, the Asylums took an increasinglyprison-like character.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Magdalen_Asylum   (1119 words)

  
 Magdalen Asylum
Magdalen Asylums were homes for "fallen women", most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church.
Magdalen Asylums grew out of the " rescue movement" in Britain and Ireland the 19th century, which had as its formal goal the rehabilitation of women who had worked as prostitutes.
In Ireland, the institutions were named for Mary Magdalene, a character in the Bible who repented her sins and became one of Jesus' closest followers.
www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Magdalen_Asylums   (1145 words)

  
 Magdalene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magdalene, Magdalen, or Magdalena (derived from Hebrew 'of Magdala'), sometimes shortened to Magda, is a female name, used in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain, Scandinavia and Slovakia.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge.
Magdalen Asylum, a type of forced labor compound in Ireland.
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 | Review | Journal of Social History, 39.1 | The History Cooperative
Drawing primarily on the records of the Good Shepherd Sisters, who operated four magdalen asylums in Ireland, Finnegan explores the impulses that guided the founding of each of the asylums, the transformation in the function of the asylums from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, and the place of the asylum in Irish society.
The third asylum, opened in New Ross, Co. Wexford, in 1860, was the least successful of the three asylums, because of its proximity to the Waterford asylum and because of a lack of support for it within the community.
She insists that women who were admitted to magdalen asylums in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were victims of "indifference" and "injustice".
www.historycooperative.org /journals/jsh/39.1/br_10.html   (977 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Magdalen Asylum
Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus.
Magdalen Asylums grew out of the " rescue movement " in Britain and Ireland in the 19th century, which had as its formal goal the rehabilitation of women who had worked as prostitutes.
As the Magdalen movement became increasingly distant from the original ideas of the "Rescue" movement, that is, to take prostitutes off the streets who would not find regular employment because of their background, the Asylums took an increasingly prison -like character.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Magdalen-Asylum   (2825 words)

  
 Magdalen Asylum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Magdalen Asylums grew out of the "rescue in Britain and Ireland the 19th century had as its formal goal the rehabilitation women who had worked as prostitutes.
As the Magdalen movement became increasingly distant the original ideas of the "Rescue" movement is to take prostitutes off the streets would not find regular employment because of background the Asylums took an increasingly prison -like character.
The existence of the asylums was little of until in 1993 an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their convent to real estate developer.
www.freeglossary.com /Magdalene_Laundrey   (1262 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com - News - Abu Magdalen
It's a Magdalen Asylum, one of the homes built by the Catholic Church (mostly in Ireland, although until 1932 there was one where San Francisco General Hospital now stands) to shelter and succor members of "this most wronged and helpless class of God's creatures": the Fallen Woman.
Originally the Magdalen Asylums were inhabited by prostitutes trying to find another form of employment; they were free to leave as they chose, and permitted to keep part of their wages from work done within the institution (usually laundry).
According to various accounts from former "Magdalens," the nuns came to realize over the next 150 years (shockingly, the last Magdalen Asylum closed just eight years ago) just how lucrative having a virtual slave population could be.
www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2004-06-16/theater.html   (799 words)

  
 Book recounts Magdalen Society reform efforts (05-09-96)
The Magdalen Society building was sold in the early 20th century and became a domestic relations court.
The Philadelphia Magdalen Society became the White-Williams Foundation, whose goal is to encourage high school students to remain in school and to achieve educational success.
A Magdalen Society, however, still exists in California, and De Cunzo said she hopes to accept an invitation to visit it in the future.
www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/96/31/6.html   (804 words)

  
 Magdalen Asylum - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It has been estimated that around 30,000 women were admitted during the 150-year history of these institutions, often against their will.
In Ireland, the institutions were named for Mary Magdalene, a character in the Bible who, according to Catholic tradition, repented her sins and became one of Jesus' closest followers.
Magdalene laundry (http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?title=Magdalene_laundry) Wikinfo article (The article is written from a negative POV.)
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Magdalen_Asylum   (1152 words)

  
 'Do Penance or Perish': A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland Journal of Social History - Find Articles
The Irish magdalen asylum had its roots in the Victorian rescue movement, and many of the magdalen asylums began as lay efforts to rescue and reform prostitutes.
Finnegan posits that although the Good Shepherd magdalen asylums had their roots in both the Victorian rescue movement and implementation of the Contagious Diseases Acts, their function changed over time.
The potential of Finnegan's subtitle, A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland is never fully realized, for two main reasons.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_1_39/ai_n15696954   (840 words)

  
 Asylums in London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Board of Managers of the metropolitan asylums district met on Saturday for the first time since the vacation, at the Board Room of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Spring Gardens.
We are told that it is definitely decided that Moule's dry-earth closets shall be introduced into the new asylums for lunatic paupers which are to be built, under Mr.Gathorne Hardy's Act.
We trust that, at all events, the necessary arrangements for water-closets, drains, soil-pipes, and so-on, will be made during the building of the asylums, or the result will probably be that costly alteration will be required hereafter.
www.institutions.org.uk /asylums/england/LDN/london_asylums.htm   (176 words)

  
 Laramie Movie Scope: The Magdalene Sisters
The untold story of the Magdalenes began to be revealed several years ago when church property was sold in Dublin.
On that property were the remains of 133 women from Magdalene laundries illegally buried there in unmarked graves.
There is a real story of one woman, Mary Norris, who, like a character in the movie, was released by her brother from a Magdalene laundry after three years of hard labor.
www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/magdalen.html   (1345 words)

  
 Magdalen Asylum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
early 20th century Magdalen Asylums were homes for "fallen women", most of them operated by different orders of the Roman Catholic Church.
Magdalen Laundry in England, early 20th century Given Ireland's conservative sexual values, Magdalen Asylums were a generally accepted social institution until well into the second half of the 20th century.
Magdalene laundry Wikinfo article (The article is written from a negative POV.)
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 Magdalen Asylum History References Jesus laundries child silence sexual values sexual physical abuse Ireland's Dirty ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lu Ann De Cunzo wrote in her book, "Reform, Respite, Ritual: An Archaeology ofInstitutions; The Magdalen Society of Philadelphia, 1800-1850" (published in Historical Archeology, the journal of the Society forHistorical Archaeology), that the women "sought a refuge and a respite from disease, the prison or almshouse, unhappy family situations, abusive men and dire economic circumstances."
Magdalen Asylum; The Magdalene Sisters; Sister Bridget, Mother Superior; Male-female income disparity in the...
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945: Books: Jeffrey L. Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America...
en.powerwissen.com /YDR1i7uVDZbumcxdqFIf6A%3D%3D_Magdalen_Asylum.html   (1258 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Magdalene Sisters: DVD: Kate Christie,Sean Colgan,Daniel Costello (II),Anne-Marie Duff,Dorothy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Director Peter Mullan, inspired by a TV documentary on the same subject, follows the miserable fates of three young women who are institutionalized in the 1960s for flimsy reasons; their lives are at the mercy of sadistic nuns (Geraldine McEwan is superb as the head of the place).
The original purpose of the ten Magdalene Laundries that were established in Ireland in the 19th century was to reform prostitutes.
Not many others of the asylum inmates are featured as heavily as these three, but one is, Crispina, a young woman with a young son, who descends gradually throughout the film into irreversible and fatal madness.
www.amazon.com /Magdalene-Sisters-Anne-Marie-Duff/dp/B00018D3L4   (2541 words)

  
 Police, Prisons, Jails and Asylums.
The produce of the penitents' labour is partly bestowed upon them, as an incentive to industry, and a part is reserved for donations upon their being restored to moral habits, and permitted to quit the asylum.
Returning from labour one evening he was interrupted by a wretched female, who endeavoured to seduce his virtuous mind from its purer course; but virtue triumphed over vice, and he succeeded in persuading the unfortunate female to accept of support from him until an asylum was procured, which would afford her a permanent shelter.
In Russel-place, on the North Circular-road, is an Asylum for Old Men; where none are admitted under 60 years of age, nor of any religion but the established church.
www.eiretek.org /chapters/books/Wright/wright14.htm   (3999 words)

  
 Magdalen Laundry Dublin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There is also a large variety of detergents that have scents, bleaching elements, stain fighting, hypo-allergic, or high efficiency.
The most durable and long lasting tub is made from stainless steel, they are usually available in the more expensive washers.
The Magdalene Laundries - History, research, resources and justice for and about the Magdalene women of Ireland and ther children...
www.buylaundrymachines.com /magdalen-laundry-dublin.html   (1070 words)

  
 Perihelion
The term “Magdalen laundry” referred to both the conceptual and the practical nature of the homes, emphasizing the symbolism of Mary Magdalen—Christianity’s exemplar of female repentance and redemption—as well as the industrial-style laundry work that the women were required to perform.
The story of the Magdalen institutions is a staggeringly complicated one.
As a citizen of a country that tends to marginalize poetry as inconsequential, I was staggered by the faith that the form engendered abroad.
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 ASILE DE MAGDALEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Les asiles de Magdalen étaient des maisons pour "les femmes tombées", la plupart d'entre elles ont fonctionné par différents ordres de l'église catholique.
Le dernier asile de Magdalen en Irlande s'est fermé septembre 25, 1996.
Les asiles de Magdalen se sont développés hors du "mouvement de délivrance" en Grande-Bretagne et l'Irlande le 19ème siècle, qui a eu en tant que son but formel la réadaptation des femmes qui avaient travaillé comme prostituées.
www.faktis.com /wiki/fr/as/Asile%20De%20Magdalen.htm   (1237 words)

  
 Magdalen Asylum - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
A play about the laundries was written by Valerie Goodwin and performed by the Coolmine Drama group at the Draiocht Arts Centre in Dublin, in 2002.
Called 'The Magdalen Whitewash' it is on www.tasteproductions.co.uk
Magdalene laundry Wikinfo article (detailed article on the abuses)he:בתי-המחסה מגדלנה
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/m/a/g/Magdalen_Asylum_72c1.html   (1141 words)

  
 Some are born to endless night - Minnesota Daily
According to many reports, the women were virtually slaves, abused and belittled by nuns and priests as they worked in horrible conditions in the asylum laundries.
Jack is a somewhat worthless private investigator, and his commission from a local gangster to find a woman who helped the gangster's mother get out of a Magdalen Asylum gets little of his attention.
Bruen adeptly creates a sense of gloomy menace around his hero that provides the reader both with a pleasurable sense of foreboding and a warning not to fall into the same patterns.
www.mndaily.com /articles/2005/03/28/63771   (509 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland: Books: Frances Finnegan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 prevented-from leaving and sometimes were detained for life.
She looks at not only the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland (as the title implies)but 'rescue homes' for prostitutes run by a variety of organizations, and located in both Ireland and England.
www.amazon.com /Do-Penance-Perish-Magdalen-Asylums/dp/0195174607   (1456 words)

  
 Vworld’s BlogSpot » Must See Movie: Magdalene Sisters
The movie, Magdalen Sisters was on the International Film Channel — I didn’t know what to expect when I first started watching it and didn’t realize until it was over that it was based on a true story.
Never convicted of any crime, many of these women spent much of their lives as virtual prisoners under the harsh supervision of sadistic priests and nuns, often subjected to physical and sexual abuse and forbidden contact with the outside world.
The rationale was that, like Mary Magdalene, the women might find salvation through deprivation and hardship; the laundries, meanwhile, raked in the profits.
www.myvworld.com /?p=166   (904 words)

  
 Table of Contents: Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
The Philadelphia Magdalen Society asylum, an institution meant to rescue young prostitutes from the consequences of male treachery, was a logical extension of seduction fiction.
Encouraged by the managers of the Magdalen society, Philadelphia prostitutes began to read their own past into seduction tales.
Didactic novelists, asylum directors, college educators, Sunday school proponents, advice writers, and sex-reform authors — all pursued their own unique visions.
www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/toc/14138.html   (8631 words)

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