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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.

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.

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The Shape of Space, Third Edition maintains the standard of excellence set by the previous editions. This lighthearted textbook covers the basic geometry and topology of two- and three-dimensional spaces-stretching students' minds as they learn to visualize new possibilities for the shape of our universe"--

In this book Jeffrey Weeks unravels the dense web of historical, theoretical and political forces that have culminated in the contemporary crisis of sexual meanings and values.

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies.

A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies.

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Includes one hundred words that are key to the understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies. This book shows how meanings change, their need to be contextualized, and how they can become 'magical' in the unfolding of sexual meanings.

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality. This new book brings together some of his most important work on the changing patterns of our sexual and intimate lives today. 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 ...

Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality. This new book brings together some of his most important work on the changing patterns of our sexual and intimate lives today. 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 ...

Magnus Hirschfeld setzte im Kampf für die Gleichberechtigung von Homosexuellen seine Hoffnungen auf die Wissenschaft, was sich in biologistischen Argumentationsmustern widerspiegelt: Körperliche und genetische Ursachen der Homosexualität bildeten die Grundlage der Diskussionen, die nicht nur in den Sexualwissenschaften noch lange Zeit einflussreich bleiben sollten. Erst in den 1970er Jahren wurden diese Muster von neuen, radikaleren Bewegungen...

The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold aim: to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual, and to analyse how the sexual in turn becomes a focal point for personal identity, cultural anxiety value debates and political action. Drawing on papers from the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context', this volume brings together key contributors to this stimulating new approach. Topics covere...

The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our sexual diversities. This book provides a balance sheet of the changes that have transformed our ways of being, from welfarism to the pill, women's and gay liberation, from globalization, consum...

Working from what he calls a radical humanist perspective, Weeks looks at sexual mores in these times of confusion -- from AIDS and the challenges of love and death, to the politics of diversity, to controversial topics such as sadomasochism, rape, and abortion rights.

Over the past generation there has been a revolution in our understanding of human sexualities. From being on the periphery of historical and scientific studies, sexuality has increasingly come to be seen as close to the heart of our understanding of contemporary societies. Since the 1960s there has been an explosion of new sexual knowledges which have re-shaped the ways in which the erotic is understood. A rich new literature has emerged, oft...

Over the past generation there has been a revolution in our understanding of human sexualities. From being on the periphery of historical and scientific studies, sexuality has increasingly come to be seen as close to the heart of our understanding of contemporary societies. Since the 1960s there has been an explosion of new sexual knowledges which have re-shaped the ways in which the erotic is understood. A rich new literature has emerged, oft...