Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories by Croll, Rie
Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories by Croll, Rie

Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories

Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose...
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Author: Rie Croll
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Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories by Croll, Rie

Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories

$67.83
Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories by Croll, Rie

Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories

$67.83
Author: Rie Croll
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Their narratives include one teenager's experience in a Good Shepherd training school in Canada; another story of a child who was born in a Canadian Good Shepherd laundry; and three accounts of adolescent girls held in Good Shepherd Magdalene laundries in Ireland and Australia. In these institutions, women and girls became a coerced workforce. Hard, unpaid and relentless physical toil, isolation, enforced silence, and prayer constituted the nuns' strategy for converting their "fallen" charges into the Christian image of pure womanhood. Within this regime, girls and women suffered physical, psychological, and emotional abuse.

While intimately capturing the dark and enduring after-effects of ill-treatment, the stories recounted in Shaped by Silence also describe survivors' efforts to heal and rebuild their lives. This important book shines a light on a pervasive and systemic pattern of cruelty and exploitation. It reveals the unwarranted confinement of generations of girls and women in Good Shepherd institutions around the world and constitutes a call for full acknowledgement of their suffering.



Author: Rie Croll
Publisher: ISER Books
Published: 05/27/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781894725538

About the Author
Croll, Rie: -

Rie Croll is a professor of sociology in the social/ cultural studies programme at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, and a former therapist who worked with abused girls and women.



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