Well, some of the studies are in and the results don’t look too good.
A bit propaganda-ish, but worth the read.
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“Get thee to a nunnery!”
From Miramax Films:
The Magdalene Sisters, an unflinching and compelling emotional drama, charting several years in the young lives of four “fallen women” who were rejected by their families and abandoned to the mercies of the Catholic Church in 1960s Ireland. While women’s liberation is sweeping the globe [I wish!], these women are stripped of their liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite sentences of servitude in the Magdalene Launderies in order to atone for their “sins.” The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed in 1996, and only since has the true horror of conditions in these institutions begun to emerge.
Oh to live on “O” . . .
All hail Ursula K LeGuin, one of this (and last) century’s foremost writers. If you haven’t read any of her work yet, you should!
LeGuin’s (later*) work tells the truth with clever lies that strip western social norms to their roots in order to better shake the tree. You’ll never look at the world in the same way.
(*Interestingly enough LeGuin started as a fairly conservative Sci Fi writer.)
Then, when you’ve cut your teeth on that, you can move on to Octavia Butler . . .