Irish magdalene laundries: reclaiming unmarried mothers’ bodies in v.s. Alexander’s the magdalen girls (2016) and lisa Michelle Odgaard’s the magdalen laundries (2017)

Abstract

espanolSi algunas ecofeministas defienden la conexion innata entre la mujer y la naturaleza, asi como la dominacion patriarcal, este articulo desacredita, siguiendo a Biehl, esa vision reduccionista de las relaciones sociales probando que el poder y la violencia son tambien llevados a cabo por mujeres y argumentando que este enfoque contribuye a una division de genero mayor. De acuerdo con la teoria de la perfomatividad del genero de Butler, analizaremos The Magdalen Girls (2016) de V.S. Alexander y The Magdalen Laundries (2017) de Lisa Michelle Odgaard para probar que las divisiones de genero y los requisitos morales han contribuido a la subyugacion de las Magdalenas a traves de la violencia y de la negacion de su rol como madres, y, sin embargo, como esa condicion de vulnerabilidad ha sido desafiada al mostrar una actitud de resistencia. EnglishIf some ecofeminists defend the innate connection between women and nature we well as the patriarchal domination of women, this article discredits, following Biehl, that reductionist view of social relations proving that power and violence are also executed by women over other inferior women and arguing that this approach contributes to a greater gender division. Following Butler’s gender performativity theory, we will analyse V.S. Alexander’s The Magdalen Girls (2016) and Lisa Michelle Odgaard’s The Magdalen Laundries (2017), to prove that gender divisions and moral requirements have contributed to the subjugation of Magdalene women through violence and to the negation of their role as mothers, and yet, how that vulnerable condition could have been challenged by growing resistant. Keyword