Charity and the Danger of Tradition in “Small Things Like These” – Chicago Review of Books

 Charity and the Danger of Tradition in “Small Things Like These” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The persecution of “fallen women” is a well-documented phenomenon in Western history, stemming back to the story of the first biblical woman, Eve. Yet records of girls and women shunned into Magdalene laundries throughout Ireland have long been hidden and destroyed. Such institutions were run as late as 1996, usually by Roman Catholic orders … Read more

 Charity and the Danger of Tradition in “Small Things Like These” – Chicago Review of Books

 Charity and the Danger of Tradition in “Small Things Like These” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The persecution of “fallen women” is a well-documented phenomenon in Western history, stemming back to the story of the first biblical woman, Eve. Yet records of girls and women shunned into Magdalene laundries throughout Ireland have long been hidden and destroyed. Such institutions were run as late as 1996, usually by Roman Catholic orders … Read more