Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)
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Jeffrey Weeks is a historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality, and is also a gay activist.
(GLF) which he joined in 1970 and the Gay Left
of which he was a founder member.
Weeks is the author of several books, including Sexuality and its Discontents, (Routledge, 1985), Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1989) and Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain.
He has been on the editorial board of several journals including History Workshop Journal
, the Journal of the History of Sexuality
, the Journal of Homosexuality
, and Victorian Studies
.
He is currently the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University
(since 1 August 2003). He is also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005.
Career
He is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain that emerged from the Gay Liberation FrontGay Liberation Front
Gay Liberation Front was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots, in which police clashed with gay demonstrators.-The Gay Liberation Front:...
(GLF) which he joined in 1970 and the Gay Left
Gay Left
Gay Left was a collective of gay men who produced a journal of the same name published every six months in London, England between the years 1975 and 1980...
of which he was a founder member.
Weeks is the author of several books, including Sexuality and its Discontents, (Routledge, 1985), Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1989) and Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain.
He has been on the editorial board of several journals including History Workshop Journal
History Workshop Journal
The History Workshop is a movement founded by Raphael Samuel. Its main role was to promote the historiographical tradition known variously as History from below, the history of everyday life, or simply the people's history...
, the Journal of the History of Sexuality
Journal of the History of Sexuality
The Journal of the History of Sexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1990 and published by the University of Texas Press.- Indexing :...
, the Journal of Homosexuality
Journal of Homosexuality
The Journal of Homosexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal This forum for research into same-sex desire examines sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts. In the fall of 2005, the Journal celebrated its 50th volume.- History...
, and Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published quarterly by Indiana University Press. It covers research on nineteenth-century Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria and publishes essays, forums, and reviews on a variety of topics concerning Victorianism, including...
.
He is currently the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University
London South Bank University
London South Bank University is a university in south London. With over 25,000 students and 1,700 staff, it is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name...
(since 1 August 2003). He is also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005.
Authored books
- Socialism and the New Life (with Sheila Rowbotham), Pluto Press, 1977
- Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Quartet Books 1977; 2nd revised edition, with new chapter and bibliography, 1990
- Sex, Politics and Society. The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800, Longman 1981; 2nd edition, with additional chapter and new bibliography, 1989
- Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Published in Spanish edition as El Malestar de la Sexualidad: Significados, Mitos y Sexualidades Modernas, Madrid, Talasa Ediciones S.L, 1993
- Sexuality, Ellis Horwood/Tavistock, 1986. Published in Spanish translation as Sexualidad, Mexico City, PUEG/ Editorial Paidos, 1998. Published in Japanese, 1999. Revised second English edition, Routledge 2003
- Between the Acts. Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967 (with Kevin Porter), Routledge, 1990; 2nd edition, with new Preface, Rivers Oram Press, 1998
- Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity, Rivers Oram Press, 1991
- Invented Moralities. Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty, UK: Polity Press, US: Columbia University Press, 1995
- Making Sexual History, Polity Press, 2000, pp x + 256, ISBN 0-7456-2114-7 (HB), 0 7456 2115 5 (PB); Chinese language edition, Nanjing 2001
- Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life Experiments (with Brian Heaphy and Catherine Donovan), Routledge, 2001, pp ix + 245, ISBN 0-415-25476-0 (hbk), 0 415 25477 9 (pbk)
- Sexuality, Revised second edition, pp xii + 164, Routledge 2003, ISBN 0-415-28285-3 (hbk), 28286 1 (pbk)