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Being Eclipsed

Women Under the 'Care' of the Patriarchy

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Being Eclipsed

By: Dörthe Dolata
Narrated by: Céire O'Donoghue
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BEING ECLIPSED describes women’s lives under the care of the Church and State in Ireland at the beginning of the mid-19th century throughout the 20th century. It gives an overview of women who had to turn to prostitution out of necessity in order to survive, and also on nuns who were put in charge of them under catholic church rule creating a double-standard. Women were treated as the “Social Evil” when they were not considered pure and innocent by State and Church. This ignorant behavior let basically to failing women instead of protecting them within society.

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I had never heard of the ‘Maggies’ in Ireland before I listened to this book. Living in Australia where we are confronting ‘the Stolen Generation’, the forced removal of Indigenous children from their mothers, I am saddened to learn about similar yet different generational abuse in Ireland. The only way we will ever learn from history is if we throw light into the darkest corners and expose injustice wherever it occurs.

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