1st Edition
The World We Have Won The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life
1. A Different World 2. Cultures of Restraint 3. The Great Transition 1: Democratization and Autonomy 4. The Great Transition 2: Regulation, Risk and Resistance 5. Chaotic Pleasures: Diversity and the New Individualism 6. The Contradictions of Contemporary Sexuality 7. Moments of Intimacy: Norms, Values and Everyday Commitments 8. Sexual Wrongs and Sexual Rights
Biography
Jeffrey Weeks works at London South Bank University where he has been Professor of Sociology, Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences, and Director of SPUR: the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute. He has an international reputation for his work on the history and social organization of sexuality and intimate life. Recent books include Making Sexual History (2000), Same Sex Intimacies (with Heaphy and Donovan, 2001) and Sexuality (second edition, 2003).
'While weeks does not claim that everything in the garden is rosy-single parents can suffer, homophobia remains and the threat of HIV/AIDS has not gone away-his thoughtful, enlightening and comprehensive analysis is both optimistic and provocative'- Emmanuel Cooper, Tribune
