Irish women are caught in contradictory sexual discourses which create a cultural double bind. The legacy of Catholic Church teaching, in which the sexual honour of women revolves around their innocence and subservience, ...
The question of place is becoming more important in an increasingly globalised, cosmopolitan world. Has the global flow of culture and the movement of people around the world meant a decline in the importance of place as ...
Inglis, Tom(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2005-05)
The history of Irish sexuality remains a relatively hidden, secretive area. In recent
years some light has been cast into the abyss (Inglis 1998b; McAvoy 1999;
McLoughlin 1994; Meany 1991; Walshe 1997; O’Carroll and ...
A central task in sociology is to make links between the micro world of events in everyday life and wider social structures and long-term processes of change. This is particularly evident in studying the impact of globalization ...
Holy Catholic Ireland is changing rapidly. Irish Catholics no longer have the same
devotion to the Church that their parents had. While institutional affiliation and levels
of belief remain high, there has been a decline ...