Sex and Sexualities in Ireland: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031365492)

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.

About the Author

Barbara Gnicka 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.