SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER RELATIONS THROUGH PAULA SPENCER’S FAMILY
Abstract
Unfortunately, the rates of violence against women have reached an alarming level and have become increasingly thematized in contemporary literature. Accordingly, in Roddy Doyle´s novels The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996) and Paula Spencer (2006) the protagonist, Paula, represents the numerous victims of violent partners, reminding us of how family is an individual’s first social contact as well as responsible for its family members’ moral values and its children’s education; and of how this will later have repercussions in society. In this way, our article is based on a sociological analysis that investigates the crime of violence against women as inherent to patriarchal society. We also argue that alcoholism is not only an individual or family problem, but a social problem that the Irish government has sought to fight against.
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