Gender, Intimacy and Contemporary Ireland

Róisín Ryan-Flood is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, citizenship, kinship and critical epistemologies. She is the author of Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (Palgrave, 2009) and (with Rosalind Gill) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections (Routledge, 2010), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She recently completed an ESRC funded project on sexual citizenship and diaspora. Her current research explores the experiences of donor egg recipients. She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society (Sage).

Introduction Part 1: Family Change 1. Nuclear Fallout: Changing Demography and Families in Ireland 2. Performing Gender through Parenthood: Infertility as a Deviant Status in Contemporary Ireland 3. Intimacy as Democracy and the Notion of Autonomy in Irish Divorcees’ Narratives 4. Irish Abortion Politics: Domestic and Transnational Tensions 5. Irish Motherhood Revisited Part 2: Gender 6. Nine Year Old Boys and Girls: On Different Paths? 7. ‘Deeds Not Words’ Imagining the Irish Countrywomen’s Association and Women’s Civic Friendships 8. Gender and Senior Management in Irish Universities 9. A Tale of Two Eras: Women and Migration in Ireland 10. Marginally Central Geographies: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality within Ireland’s Education Contexts Part 3: Sexuality 11. Grá Gheal No More?: International Couples in Ireland 12. Making Camp in Ireland: The Annual Alternative Miss Ireland Contest and Narratives of Nation and Home 13. Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in Ireland: A Feminist Perspective 14. Sexuality, Citizenship and Migration: A View from the Diaspora