1st Edition

The Languages of Sexuality

By Jeffrey Weeks Copyright 2011
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is. The Languages of Sexuality offers concise and incisive... Read more

A-Z of Entries.  Addiction.  Age.  Authenticity.  Autonomy.  Bisexuality.  Blackmail.  Bodies.  Bohemia.  Boundaries.  Care.  Citizenship.  Commitment.  Community.  Commodities.  Consent.  Construction.  Cultures.  Curiosity.  Cybersex.  Death.  Democracy.  Desire.  Dirt.  Disease.  Drugs.  Ecstasy.  Equality.   Eros.  Essence.  Experiments.  Families.  Fantasy.  Femininity.  Feminism.  Fetish.  Friendship.  Fundamentalism.  Gay.  Gender.  Genes.  Globalisation.  Heterosexuality.  Homosexuality.  Homophobia.  Identity.  Individualism.  Intimacy.  Jealousy.  Knowledge.  Lesbianism.  Liberation.  Love.  Masculinity.  Marriage.  Masturbation.  Metrosexuality.   Movements.  Needs.  Orgasm.  Otherness.  Paedophilia.  Parenting.  Partnership.  Panic.  Performance.  Perversion.  Phallus.  Pleasure.  Polyamorous.   Pornography.  Prostitution.  Power.  Privacy.  Queer.  Race.  Religion.  Regulation.   Relationships.  Reproduction.  Respect.  Responsibility.  Rights.  Rites.  Sadomasochism.  Safety.   Science.  Sexuality.  Sodomy.   Space.  Stories.  Tourism.  Tradition.  Transgender.  Transgression.  Utopia.  Values.  Vice.  Victims.  Violence.  Voyeurism.  Words. 

Biography

Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, having previously held senior management posts there as Executive Dean, (Arts and Human Sciences), and University Director of Research. His publications have been chiefly concerned with the history and sociology of sexuality and intimate life, and he is the author of more than a hundred articles and over twenty books. Recent publications include The World We Have Won (2007) and Sexuality, third edition (2009).