Nóirín Macnamara

Biographic Data

ID1634876
NAMENóirín Macnamara
GIVEN NAMESNóirín
FAMILY NAMEMacnamara
SIGNATUREMACNAMARA N
AFFILIATIONSNational University of Ireland, Maynooth
ORCID0000-0002-6220-571X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The value of owning the symbols that orientate us within Subjectivity

    Open AccessNóirín MacnamaraARTICLEFeminist Theory2025References: 15

    Judith Butler contests Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek's argument that the limits to symbolisation which shape political action are best accounted for through Jacques Lacan's account of the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real. Butler agrees that we each emerge as social subjects on the condition of foreclosures, but disagrees that such foreclosures are prior to the social or explicable through a universal account of kinship. Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí has a some…

  • Healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the termination of pregnancy

    Nóirín Macnamara, Fiona Bloomer et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in October 2019. Following decriminalisation, the new regulations set out legal provision for abortion up until 12 weeks, with conditions thereafter. This cross-sectional descriptive survey, conducted in late 2019 in Northern Ireland, gathered the views of health professionals on decriminalisation, and their willingness to provide abortion services. This article provides a thematic analysis of answe…

  • The workplace as a site of abortion surveillance

    Open AccessFiona Bloomer, D Mackle et al.ARTICLEGender Work and Organization2023Cited by: 1References: 18

    Analysis of the experiences and resulting inequalities in reproductive health in the workplace has generated studies of pregnancy, miscarriage, menstruation, fertility and menopause. One issue that has remained outside of this literature is abortion. How abortion is talked about (or not talked about), experienced and perceived as a workplace issue were the central questions in our research undertaken in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Irelan…

  • Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms

    Open AccessFiona Bloomer, Nóirín Macnamara et al.ARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2023Cited by: 1References: 7

    Little is known about how, in conservative societies, people of faith who support access to abortion, transgress spaces that assume anti-abortion values and norms. This qualitative study, set in Northern Ireland, seeks to identify how prochoice persons of faith transgress dominant religious positions, through the application of a Foucauldian feminist framework. Regulation of abortion in Northern Ireland vis-à-vis the UK is, and always has been, t…

  • Precarity and Judith Butler’s Ambivalent Social Bond. What Is the Value of Ettingerian Transconnectedness?

    Open AccessNóirín MacnamaraCHAPTERPrecarity and International…2021

  • Interrogating the politicization of female genital cutting (FGC) within conditions of asymmetrical cultural convergence. A case study of Northern Ireland

    Open AccessNóirín Macnamara, D Mackle et al.ARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum2020

  • Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues

    Nóirín Macnamara, D Mackle et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2020Cited by: 4References: 5

    Internet-mediated focus groups (FGs) have become a feature of qualitative research over the last decade; however, their use within social sciences has been adopted at a slower pace than other disciplines. This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of internet-mediated FGs and reflects on their use for researching culturally sensitive issues. It reports on an innovative study, which utilised text-based asynchronous internet-mediated FGs…