Making Sexual History

by Jeffrey Weeks

Overview

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745669083
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	507 KB

About the Author

Jeffrey Weeks is Dean of South Bank University and Professor of Sociology

Table of Contents

	Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction: Making Sexual History	1
Part I	Contested Knowledge: Writers on Sexuality	15
1	Havelock Ellis and the Politics of Sex-Reform	17
2	Mary Mclntosh and the 'Homosexual Role'	53
3	Dennis Altman and the Politics of (Homo)Sexual Liberation	75
4	Guy Hocquenghem and Homosexual Desire	86
5	Foucault for Historians	106
Part II	Histories of Sexuality	123
6	Sexuality and History Revisited	125
7	AIDS and the Regulation of Sexuality	142
8	An Unfinished Revolution: Sexuality in the Twentieth Century	163
Part III	Making History	179
9	The Idea of a Sexual Community	181
10	Community Responses to HIV and AIDS: The 'De-Gaying' and 'Re-Gaying' of AIDS	194
11	Everyday Experiments: Narratives of Non-Heterosexual Relationships	212
12	Millennium Blues and Beyond: Sexuality at the Fin de Millennium	233
	Index	247