This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context
where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to …

This is a personal account of a sociological career over four decades, influenced by
developments in Irish society and sociology. I focus on the growth of a feminist sociology, the …

Critical studies of men and masculinities implicitly acknowledge, and sometimes explicitly
address (eg McMahon, 1999, Gerstel and Gallagher, 2001, Coltrane and Galt, 2000), how …

abstract This chapter discusses the issue of teenage pregnancy in the Republic of Ireland. It
explores the incidence of teenage pregnancy both historically and in recent years. It …

Research is shaped by our theory of knowledge, guided by what we believe can be known
and how. This chapter interrogates the ontology and epistemology of two research projects …

This is a study of single women's reproduction in Ireland, the investigation of a contemporary
phenomenon in its real life context. The study is interested in the temporal nature of …

The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in
Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut" The Glorious Heresies"(2015) …

This study has considered the care-free dynamic of Irish masculinities, but within a wider
global context wherein men are expected to have fewer caring obligations than women …