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)
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Si algunas ecofeministas defienden la conexión innata entre la mujer y la naturaleza, así como la dominación patriarcal, este artículo desacredita, siguiendo a Biehl, esa visión reduccionista de las relaciones sociales probando que el poder y la violencia son también llevados a cabo por mujeres y argumentando que este enfoque contribuye a una división de género mayor. De acuerdo con la teoría de la perfomatividad del género 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 género y los requisitos morales han contribuido a la subyugación de las Magdalenas a través de la violencia y de la negación de su rol como madres, y, sin embargo, cómo esa condición de vulnerabilidad ha sido desafiada al mostrar una actitud de resistencia.
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