Marriage Equality Time: Entanglements of sexual progress and childhood innocence in Irish primary schools
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2019
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Neary, Aoife
Rasmussen, Mary Lou
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Sage Publications Inc
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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.
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Childhood innocence, marriage equality, primary schools, queer temporality, sexual progressivism
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Sexualities
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