Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9781032105345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 216 str.

UK) Weeks Jeffrey (London South Bank University

Opis

This new edition of the classic text for understanding human sexuality brings the arguments and evidence fully up to date, and explores their implication for many topical controversies, around LGBTQ+ rights, the trans experience and gender fluidity, same-sex marriage, sexual autonomy and consent, and the meanings of sexual choice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: languages of sex 2. The invention of sexuality 3. The meanings of sexual difference 4. The challenge of diversity 5. Sexuality, intimacy and politics 6. Private pleasures and public policies

O autorze

Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, UK. He is a renowned historian and sociologist of human sexuality and a pioneering writer on LGBTQ+ identities and ways of life. He is the author of numerous books including Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities (Routledge, 1985), The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life (Routledge, 2007), The Languages of Sexuality (Routledge, 2011), and Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800 (Fourth Edition, Routledge, 2017). His work has been widely recognised internationally and translated into various languages. He is the recipient of the Gold Medal of the World Association for Sexual Health and was awarded an OBE in 2012 for his contribution to social science.