Lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers’ negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism

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dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoifeen
dc.contributor.authorGray, Bredaen
dc.contributor.authorO’Sullivan, Maryen
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T13:51:01Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T13:51:01Z
dc.date.issued2018en
dc.description.abstractAs legal structures for same-sex relationships are introduced in many contexts, the politics of sexuality are negotiated along religious/secular lines. Religious and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBT-Q) rights are pitted against one another such that LGBT-Q lives often assumed to be secular. Schools are crucibles of intermingling religious, secular and equality discourses and this complexity is carefully negotiated by LGBT-Q teachers in their everyday lives. Drawing on a study with LGB teachers as they entered into a Civil Partnership in Ireland (a legal structure in place for five years prior to enactment of Marriage Equality in 2015), this paper captures a ‘structure of feeling’–new cultural work done as sexuality norms were in a state of flux. The teachers’ accounts unravel the religious/secular binary and provide insight of universal interest into the ambivalent, messy ways in which the politics of sexuality are (re)negotiated across the overlapping social fields of religion and education.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionSubmitted versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationNeary, A., Gray, B. and O’Sullivan, M. (2018) 'Lesbian, gay and bisexual teachers’ negotiations of civil partnership and schools: Ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(3), pp.434-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2016.1276432en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01596306.2016.1276432en
dc.identifier.endpage447en
dc.identifier.issn1596306en
dc.identifier.issued3
dc.identifier.journaltitleDiscourseen
dc.identifier.startpage434en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17622
dc.identifier.volume39
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© 2017, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive formhas been published in Discourse: Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education, available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2016.1276432en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectCivil partnership/same-sex marriageen
dc.subjectCultural legitimacyen
dc.subjectLesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queeren
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectSecularismen
dc.subjectStructure of feelingen
dc.subjectTeachersen
dc.titleLesbian, gay and bisexual teachers’ negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularismen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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