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Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities book cover

1st Edition

Sexuality and Its Discontents Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities

By Jeffrey Weeks Copyright 1985
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

Few topics evoke so much anxiety and pleasure, pain and hope, discussion and silence as sexuality. Throughout the Christian era it has been a major moral preoccupation. Since the eighteenth century it has also been the focus of 'scientific' exploration and political activity. But, despite this obsessive concern, we are still as baffled as our predecessors about the 'true' meaning of sex. In this... Read more
Preface PART ONE: SEXUALITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS Chapter 1: Introductory: the subject of sex Chapter 2: The ‘sexual revolution’ revisited Chapter 3: The new moralism PART TWO: THE SEXUAL TRADITION Chapter 4: ‘Nature had nothing to do with it’: the role of sexology Chapter 5: ‘A never-ceasing duel’? ‘Sex’ in relation to ‘society’ PART THREE: THE CHALLENGE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Chapter 6: Sexuality and the unconscious Chapter 7: Dangerous desires PART FOUR: THE BOUNDARIES OF SEXUALITY Chapter 8: ‘Movements of affirmation’: identity politics Chapter 9: The meaning of diversity Chapter 10: Conclusion: beyond the boundaries of sexuality

Biography

Jeffrey Weeks is currently Professor in Social Relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has previously held research and teaching posts at the London School of Economics and at the Universities of Essex, Kent and Southampton. Since the early 1970s he has researched, taught and written widely on the theory, history and politics of sexuality. He is the editor of ‘History Workshop Journal, and his previous books include Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the 19th Century to the Present, Sex Politics and Society: the Regulation of Sexuality since 1800, Sexuality, Between the Acts with Kevin Porter and Against Nature.

'What is so helpful about Jeffrey Weeks's book is that it provides a thinking cap beneath which to understand the complete range of discontented sexual prejudice and polemic of our time.' - New Society
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