Jeffrey Weeks: 8 books

Book cover of Making Sexual History
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
Book cover of What is Sexual History?
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires. In this book,...
Book cover of Sexuality
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016

The new edition of Sexuality displays the qualities which have made this book a key text for understanding human sexuality. Jeffrey Weeks blends deep empirical knowledge with theoretical sophistication and a sensitivity to the politics of sexuality. Framing and shaping the analysis is an acute understanding...
Book cover of The Languages of Sexuality
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011

Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They...
Book cover of Sex, Politics and Society

Sex, Politics and Society

The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800

by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society provides a lucid and comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to the present. These changes are firmly located in the wider context of British social, political...
Book cover of The World We Have Won

The World We Have Won

The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life

by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007

The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our sexual diversities. This book provides...
Book cover of Invented Moralities

Invented Moralities

Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty

by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.
Book cover of Same Sex Intimacies

Same Sex Intimacies

Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

by Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting. Based on extensive...
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