The Magdalene Laundries: Social Welfare or Womens' Prisons?
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling
English - June 17, 2020 04:00 - 2 hours - 183 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsHistory Society & Culture history comedy culturalcriticism eladarling feminism popculture society sociology sovereignsyre truecrime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week Siouxsie Q and Sovereign take a look at Magdalene Laundries, workhouses set up by the Catholic church to look after extraneous women; those who fell pregnant, were indigent, in debt or mentally ill at the turn of the twentieth century. These house came into the spotlight at the turn of the twenty first century when mass graves were discovered under many of them....