Volume 1, Issue 1: April 2009

Cover-page and contents: Volume1 | Issue 1

Introduction, Eoin Devereux

Changing Irish Norms: The Smoking Ban, James Carr

Does file sharing really offend our collective conscience? Exploring the relationship between societal versus corporate interests in the criminalisation of file sharing, Ann Cronin

Eating, food and the female body in the media and medicine: A feminist analysis of eating disorders, Eleanor Carey

The sociology of chronic illness: An experiential account of the benefits of a sociological perspective to students of medicine, Claire Kehoe

An Irish audience negotiates lesbian visibility in The L Word: “But it’s not a perfect world and not everyone looks like that”, Deirdre Moore

The rising tide that failed to lift all boats: poverty, inequality and the “Celtic Tiger”, Louise Johnston

Social exclusion and the plight of asylum seekers living in Ireland, Ruth McDonnell

The Irish welfare state: Closer to Boston than Berlin?, Mathilde Schäfer