Making Sexual History
By: Jeffrey Weeks.
Publisher: Polity Press; Blackwell Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Sex -- History; Sex -- Historiography; Homosexuality -- History; Homosexuality -- Historiography; Sexology -- History
Description: "The first part of the book discusses writers on sexuality, from Havelock Ellis to more recent influential thinkers such as Michel Foucault. Jeffrey Weeks gives an account of the social and political context in which they wrote, and assesses how their work has shaped our concepts of sexuality and intimacy. The second part of the book explores the ways in which sociologists and historians have been rethinking sexuality, and how 'the erotic' is being reinvented by new sexual and social movements. He examines the impact of AIDS as well as the gradual changes which have transformed personal lives in this century, and concludes with a review of attitudes and ideas at the end of the millennium." "This text will be of interest to specialists and students in the areas of sociology and social theory, and history, as well as all those working in the area of gender studies who are concerned with issues of sexuality and intimate life."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction: Making Sexual History
pagenum: 1; label: PART I
title: Contested Knowledge: Writers on Sexuality; label: 1
title: Havelock Ellis and the Politics of Sex-Reform
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Mary McIntosh and the `Homosexual Role'
pagenum: 53; label: 3
title: Dennis Altman and the Politics of (Homo)Sexual Liberation
pagenum: 75; label: 4
title: Guy Hocquenghem and Homosexual Desire
pagenum: 86; label: 5
title: Foucault for Historians
pagenum: 106; label: PART II
title: Histories of Sexuality; label: 6
title: Sexuality and History Revisited
pagenum: 125; label: 7
title: AIDS and the Regulation of Sexuality
pagenum: 142; label: 8
title: An Unfinished Revolution: Sexuality in the Twentieth Century
pagenum: 163; label: PART III
title: Making History; label: 9
title: The Idea of a Sexual Community
pagenum: 181; label: 10
title: Community Responses to HIV and AIDS: The `De-Gaying' and `Re-Gaying' of AIDS
pagenum: 194; label: 11
title: Everyday Experiments: Narratives of Non-Heterosexual Relationships
pagenum: 212; label: 12
title: Millennium Blues and Beyond: Sexuality at the Fin de Millennium
pagenum: 233; title: Index
pagenum: 247