Ryan, Paul (2012) Ask Angela: Reappraising the Irish 'sexual repression' narrative. History Ireland, 20 (2). pp. 42-45. ISSN 0791-8224
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Abstract
How sexually repressed was Irish society in the 1960s and 1970s? How did it compare with the rest of the Western world? To find out, Paul Ryan took a trawl through the letters of well-known agony aunt Angela Macnamara, and also interviewed some of her male readers.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Ireland; Angela Macnamara; agony aunts; sexuality; society; 1960s; 1970s; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 9212 |
Depositing User: | Paul Ryan |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2018 16:03 |
Journal or Publication Title: | History Ireland |
Publisher: | Wordwell Ltd |
Refereed: | No |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/9212 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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