TY - JOUR
T1 - Marriage Equality Time
T2 - Entanglements of sexual progress and childhood innocence in Irish primary schools
AU - Neary, Aoife
AU - Rasmussen, Mary Lou
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - Ireland is a majority-Catholic country that has, in recent times, been held up as a model of sexual progress internationally. We employ the term Marriage Equality Time (MET) to signify the tensions related to temporality, sexuality and children that emerged as Marriage Equality (ME) was introduced in Ireland. Drawing on a study with six primary schools during the ME referendum, this article captures MET in its emergent state, exploring how parents, teachers and principals were processing what ME might mean for children and schools. This analysis of MET illustrates how it mediates imaginaries of childhood innocence, sexuality and the nation-state.
AB - Ireland is a majority-Catholic country that has, in recent times, been held up as a model of sexual progress internationally. We employ the term Marriage Equality Time (MET) to signify the tensions related to temporality, sexuality and children that emerged as Marriage Equality (ME) was introduced in Ireland. Drawing on a study with six primary schools during the ME referendum, this article captures MET in its emergent state, exploring how parents, teachers and principals were processing what ME might mean for children and schools. This analysis of MET illustrates how it mediates imaginaries of childhood innocence, sexuality and the nation-state.
KW - Childhood innocence
KW - marriage equality
KW - primary schools
KW - queer temporality
KW - sexual progressivism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070956683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1363460719861819
DO - 10.1177/1363460719861819
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070956683
SN - 1363-4607
VL - 23
SP - 898
EP - 916
JO - Sexualities
JF - Sexualities
IS - 5-6
ER -