Magdalene Asylums, Prostitution and Law in Scotland, 1797-1956.

奖学金将是一个宝贵的机会，让我传播关于苏格兰边缘化工人阶级妇女被遗忘的历史的知识。我的论文产生于关于爱尔兰抹大拉收容所和救济政治的社会正义辩论。抹大拉收容所是旨在改造被认为需要改变宗教信仰和重新融入社会的妇女的居住机构。二十世纪爱尔兰的抹大拉收容所主导了当前的研究领域。其中大多数是由天主教修道院管理的，其中许多旨在终身监禁囚犯。虽然他们不再存在，但由于他们的虐待性质和关于爱尔兰国家，天主教会和爱尔兰社会在强制治疗抹大拉幸存者中的共谋的持续争论，他们的历史有一个现代主义的观点。在苏格兰，抹大拉的妇女包括以前的妓女，以及从事婚外性行为的妇女，性虐待和身体虐待的受害者，以前的囚犯或酗酒的妇女。尽管他们的大量使用，没有全面的全国范围内的研究新教徒的抹大拉庇护。我的论文是对1797年至1914年期间的第一个这样的描述，并确定了大约25个抹大拉机构。最后一家此类机构于1956年在格拉斯哥关闭。通过详细的历史描述，我为比较爱尔兰和苏格兰的历史轨迹做好了准备，同时也提出了什么样的社会和法律因素决定了民族差异，以及对前苏格兰抹大拉人及其记忆缺乏行动主义。在我的研究期间，我将对苏格兰现行卖淫法律的起源进行研究。它将提供苏格兰法律的谱系，相关的社会工作和跨社会阶层卖淫的概念化。我的初步调查结果表明，在苏格兰，维多利亚时代的法律和现行法律之间存在着惊人的连续性。这项研究将成为法律专家、独立政府顾问、社会工作者和性工作者活动家的重要资源。它将表明有必要通过指出过去200年的连续性来重新构建当前的辩论，从中我们可以学习提出谈论商业性行为的创新方式。该奖学金将是我获得更多资助和奖学金的重要跳板，在此期间，我将能够开展一个关于苏格兰和爱尔兰卖淫的社会法律比较历史的重大研究项目。奖学金将给我时间和资源，让学术界以外的人可以使用我的研究。我将通过与当地旅游公司合作的徒步旅行来普及苏格兰“堕落”女性、卖淫和抹大拉收容所的历史，在BBC广播/播客上发表演讲，并在位于苏格兰最大的抹大拉收容所之一爱丁堡抹大拉收容所附近的Dalry公墓制作纪念牌和信息板。这将对在游客、当地居民和国际观众中培养苏格兰历史遗产产生重大影响。我在奖学金期间所进行的活动和研究将对我的职业发展产生重大影响。这将给我时间和资源，通过额外的研究来完善我的博士论文，出版我的第一本专著和一篇新文章，并突出我的工作的社会和经济影响。它将帮助我获得作为历史犯罪学家的专业知识——这是我想继续的职业道路。与Jane Scoular教授合作，她是商业性行为的主要法律声音之一，并且能够将大量时间投入到公众参与中，这将加强我作为跨学科研究者的形象。

The Fellowship will be an invaluable opportunity for me to disseminate knowledge about Scotland's forgotten history of marginalised, working-class women. My thesis was born out of social justice debates on Irish Magdalene asylums and the politics of redress. Magdalene asylums were residential institutions aimed at reforming women deemed in need of religious conversion and resocialisation. The twentieth-century Magdalene asylums in Ireland have dominated the current research field. Most of them were run by Catholic convents and many of them aimed at incarcerating inmates for life. Although they no longer exist, their history has a presentist perspective due to their abusive nature and ongoing debates about the complicity of the Irish state, Catholic Church, and Irish society in the coercive treatment of Magdalene survivors. In Scotland the Magdalene women included former prostitutes, as well as women who engaged in extra-marital sex, were victims of sexual and physical abuse, were former prisoners or who struggled with alcohol addiction. Despite their prolific use, there had been no comprehensive nation-wide study of Protestant Magdalene asylums. My thesis was the first such account for the period of 1797 - 1914 and identified around 25 Magdalene institutions. The last such institution closed in 1956 in Glasgow. Through my detailed historical account, I prepared ground for comparing the historical trajectories of Ireland and Scotland, as well as asking what social and legal factors determined the national differences and the lack of activism on behalf of former Scottish Magdalenes and their memory. During my Fellowship, I will undertake research on the origins of the current laws regulating prostitution in Scotland. It will deliver a genealogy of Scottish laws, of relevant social work and of conceptualisation of prostitution across social classes. My pre-liminary findings show that there is a striking continuity between the Victorian and current laws in Scotland. This research will be an important resource for legal experts, independent government advisors, social workers, and sex workers activists. It will show the need to reframe the current debates by pointing out the continuities during the last 200 years from which we can learn to propose innovative ways of talking about commercial sex. The Fellowship will be a major steppingstone for me towards further grants and fellowships during which I will be able to undertake a major research project on the socio-legal comparative history of prostitution in Scotland and Ireland. The Fellowship will give me time and resources to make my research available to people outside academia. I will popularise the history of Scotland's 'fallen' women, prostitution, and Magdalene asylums through walking tours in collaboration with local tour companies, speaking at BBC Radio/Podcast, and creating a commemorative plaque and information board in the Dalry Cemetery that was located near one of the biggest Magdalene Asylums in Scotland, the Edinburgh Magdalene Asylum. This will have a significant impact on cultivating Scottish historical heritage among tourists, local population and international audience. The activities and research I will undertake during the Fellowship will have a major impact on my career development. It will give me time and resources to enhance my doctoral thesis through additional research, publish my first monograph and a new article, and highlight the social and economic impact of my work. It will help me gain expertise as a historical criminologist - a career path I want to continue. Working with Professor Jane Scoular, who is one of the leading legal voices on commercial sex, and being able to dedicate a lot of time towards public engagement will strengthen my profile as an interdisciplinary researcher.