Asking Angela MacNamara: An Intimate History of Irish Lives

by Paul Ryan

Using the letters published by popular Sunday Press agony aunt Angela Macnamara between 1963 and 1980, this fascinating book offers a unique insight into intimate relationships within family life in Ireland. It charts how dating and married couples negotiated a new understanding of their intimate and sexual lives, and shows how women rejected relationships where sex was a duty within marriage as opposed to an expression of love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716530392
• ISBN13: 9780716530398
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 238 Pages