Aoife Neary

Aoife Neary is an Irish sociologist and educationalist. She is a lecturer in the School of Education, University College Cork (UCC). Quotes The age-appropriate timelines articulated by some parents and teachers point instead to the continuing underlying problematic assumption that children are somehow free of sexual knowledge until introduced to sexual knowledge by adults. Such logics of course also reinforce a (hetero)normative timeline wherein there is an ‘appropriate’ moment, later in childhood, for the presumed heterosexual child to be introduced to alternatives to heterosexuality. . . . However, . . . a truly queer approach to childhood studies would not only be concerned with the erasure or presence of LGBT+ identities in the curriculum. It would also involve a queering of childhood innocence itself. Aoife Neary and Mary Lou Rasmussen, "Marriage Equality Time: Entanglements of Sexual progress and Childhood Innocence in Irish Primary Schools", Sexualities, vol. 23, nos. 5-6 (2020), pp. 898-916. See also: Hannah Dyer, "Queer Futurity and Childhood Innocence: Beyond the Injury of Development", Global Studies of Childhood, vol. 7, no. 3 (2017), p. 292 External links Q141393166 Category:Living people Category:Sociologists from Ireland Category:Women academics from Ireland