Lily Arthur

Broschiertes Buch

Dirty Laundry

Beschreibung

Dirty Laundry is the story of Lily Arthur, a young 17 year old caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for stepping outside of the 'moral codes' of society. Unfortunately for Lily, the draconian ideologies were the ones that controlled her life. ¿ For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken away from the man she loved and planned to marry. ¿ Taken from her bed in the middle of the night to the Brisbane Watchhouse, she was incarcerated by the state to work indefinitely in a notorious Magdalene laundry in Brisbane. ¿ Locked away and hidden, the child of her first love was taken from her in the labour ward of a Brisbane Hospital, and eventually given away to strangers. ¿ In the few minutes she was allowed to see him through the window, she made him the promise, 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again'. ¿ Dirty Laundry is a true story from the war-torn ravages of East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry exposes the cruelty that challenged the notion of a decent society. A precedent court case and a judgement that drove her on to seek justice through a Senate Inquiry. Follow Lily as she tells of her journey that took her, and a movement of women like herself, on a lifelong battle for justice, and the outcomes of years of activism.

Autor

Lily Arthur is the Director of Origins, supporting people separated by adoption and a campaigner for human rights and justice for women and children affected by the illegal adoption practices of the past. This book tells the story of a young girl migrating to Australia at the age of 9 from the war torn debris of East London. This was 1959 and the era of the "ten-pound Pom" and a promise of what was supposed to be a brighter future in Australia. Two years after our arrival saw us abandoned by my father, who returned to England, and my mother's fight not to lose her nine children to the State of Queensland. Caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for stepping outside of the "moral codes" of society, saw me a month shy of my 17th birthday, incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry and the child I was carrying whisked away in the labour ward of a Brisbane hospital, never to be held by his mother. Decades later, my search for truth and accountability uncovers an un-rightable wrong and led to an impossible journey of finding my lost child.My story documents the struggle of an estimated 150, 000 Australian women like myself who have suffered one of the greatest human rights abuses that could be inflicted on young vulnerable women and their children. It is a story that ends in a historic national apology by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the unresolved legacy of a time and place that saw its effects flow onto infinity, and to generations that are still yet to be born.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lily Arthur
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9780645524109
• ISBN-10: 0645524107
• Artikelnr.: 64185888