Sex and Sexualities in Ireland

This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines. These chapters place sex and sexualities in Ireland in historical context and take the reader through the structural changes that have transformed the expression of sexuality in Ireland from one of self-denial to self-expression. The collection does not however unquestionably assume a linear narrative of progress: new issues and challenges are also addressed throughout.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars from a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy, history, media, gender studies and psychology. The collection is divided into six separate but interlinked thematic sections: Sexualities in Historical Irish Contexts, Young Adults, Sexual Health, and Education, Sexual Practices and Health, Minority Sexualities and Genders, Sex Work in Ireland and Activism and Contestation.

Brings together interdisciplinary scholars to cover a wide range of topics pertaining to sex and sexuality in Ireland Includes material on sexual and gender minorities, digital culture, and activism Addresses issues central to sexuality including identity, behavior, culture, history, and politics

Auteur

Barbara Górnicka completed her doctoral degree in Sociology at University College Dublin. Her main research interests include sociology of the body, emotions, women's health, sex and sexuality, gender, and sociological theory. Her publications include a book Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment: A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (2016), and an edited collection Norbert Elias in Troubled Times Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-first Century (2021). She is a lecturer at UCD's School of Sociology.

Mark Doyle is Lecturer in Sociology at South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford, Ireland. His research interests include dating apps: sexual health, masculinities and the body. Mark is also a sexual health adviser and has worked with the Mpower programme at HIV Ireland to develop digital sexual health outreach strategies for rural and peri-urban gay and bisexual men who have sex with men (gbMSM), with a focus on gbMSM who are not out and their specific sexual health needs. Mark completed his doctoral degree at University College Dublin's School of Sociology, Ireland. ORCID ID 0000-0002-8280-8315.

Contenu
Chapter 1- Irish Sex in History and Contexts: Editors' Introduction.- Part I: Sexualities in Historical Irish Contexts.- Chapter 2- 'I part not from effeminacy' - queer behaviour in Gaelic Ireland.- Chapter 3- Fun and Games - Cork Lesbians, Sex and Sexuality.- Chapter 4- Digital Pathways to Queer Irish Histories: Digital Media, Queer Archives and Queering Cultural Memory through Technology.- Part II: Young Adults, Sexual Health, and Education.- Chapter 5- Comprehensive sexuality education in Ireland: A children's rights perspective.- Chapter 6- The Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Review: Advancing Student Sexual Citizenship in Ireland for the Twenty First Century?.- Chapter 7- The Road Less Travelled: The Journey to Meaningful and Empowering Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in Irish Schools.- Part III: Sexual Practices and Health.- Chapter 8- Vaginismus in Irish Culture.- Chapter 9- Queer Expressions: Intersections of Sexuality, Identity and Healthcare for IrishGay Men.- Chapter 10- Chemsex in Ireland: Increasing pleasure and reducing harms.- Part IV: Minority Sexualities and Genders.- Chapter 11- Sexual behaviour in sexual minority young people from Ireland.- Chapter 12- Gay Travellers in Ireland: resisting tradition.- Chapter 13- "To be honest, I've never associated too much with being Irish...": Bisexualities and Belonging in the Post-Marriage Equality Era.- Part V: Sex Work in Ireland.- Chapter 14-'Selfies that Pay': #OnlyFans and the Online Lives of Migrant Male Sex Workers in Ireland.- Chapter 15- "They never self-identify": Victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, the island of Ireland.- Part VI: Activism and Contestation.- Chapter 16- 'No woman should have to travel for the health care they deserve. #repealthe8th'.- Chapter 17- HIV and the Politics of Silence in Ireland.