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Author:   Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780745680248

ISBN 10:   0745680240
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   08 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgements An Introduction What is a History of Sexuality a History of? Narratives Summary of Book Chapter 1: Framing Sexual History Towards a Critical Sexual History Theoretical Detours Bodies Subjectivities and Affect Generations Times Present, Times Past, Times Future Chapter 2: The Invention of Sexual History The Magic of Words The Natural History of Sexuality The New History The Emergence of Social Constructionism Chapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex History What is Homosexual History? Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic Present Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Homosexual The Queer Challenge Beyond the Binary Making Connections Chapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and Power Dangers and Pleasures Sexual Violence and Sexual History Historicizing Female Sexuality Sexuality and the Theory Wars Rethinking Power Intersections On Manliness, Masculinity, and Men Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual History Into the Mainstream The Birth of Modern Sexuality? The Normalization of Heterosexuality The Great Transition AIDS and the Burdens of History Same-sex Marriage and New Patterns of Intimacy Chapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual History Globalizing Sexual History Historians and Transnational Sexual History Patterns of Sexual History The Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial Critique Sexual Regimes, Sexual Lives History and Human Sexual Rights Chapter 7: Memory, Community, Voice Unofficial Knowledges and Counter-history Memory and Community The Sexual Archive Voice Living Sexual History Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index

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'For over forty years, with flawless erudition, Jeffrey Weeks has been leading us through the exciting history of the shifting meanings, manners, conflicts and victories around sexual intimacies. In this elegantly succinct overview we can learn all we need to know about debates surrounding the continuing complexities of people's ability to flaunt and enjoy their sexual desires. An essential guide for everyone.' Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London 'This is a learned, ecumenical, broad-ranging, elegantly written and altogether engaging account of the history of sexuality. No student or general reader could want a better-informed, more thoughtful and generous guide to the field than Jeffrey Weeks. Most importantly this book shows that the history of sexuality illuminates not only contemporary debates but the ways we understand our past more generally.' Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley

'For over forty years, with flawless erudition, Jeffrey Weeks has been leading us through the exciting history of the shifting meanings, manners, conflicts and victories around sexual intimacies. In this elegantly succinct overview we can learn all we need to know about debates surrounding the continuing complexities of people's ability to flaunt and enjoy their sexual desires. An essential guide for everyone.' Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London 'This is a learned, ecumenical, broad-ranging, elegantly written and altogether engaging account of the history of sexuality. No student or general reader could want a better-informed, more thoughtful and generous guide to the field than Jeffrey Weeks. Most importantly this book shows that the history of sexuality illuminates not only contemporary debates but the ways we understand our past more generally.' Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley

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Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University.

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