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Jeffrey Weeks

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Biography,work.

British academic, sociologist, social historian, and gay activist.

Educated at University College, London, and the University of Kent at Canterbury.

He was a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent. During 1989-90 he was Simon Senior Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was Professor of Social Relations at Bristol Polytechnic.

He is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain emerging from theGay Liberation Front (GLF)which he joined in 1970 and theGay Left Collectiveof which he was a founder member.

He began by chronicling the development of homosexual politics from the late nineteenth century to the gay liberation movement inComing Out, (1977).

He became professor of sociology at South Bank University in October 1994. He was Head of School of Education, Politics and Social Science from September 1995 to July 1998, and he became Dean of Humanities and Social Science in August, 1998.

He has been on the editorial board of several journals includingHistory Workshop Journal, theJournal of the History of Sexuality, theJournal of Homosexuality, andVictorian Studies.

He has appeared on numerous television programmes on topics related to sexuality.

• Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, 1977.
  
  1990, revised edition.
  

• Socialism and the New Life, with Sheila Rowbotham, 1977.
  

• Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800, 1981.
  
  1989, revised edition.
  

• Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities, 1985.
  

• Sexuality, 1986.
  

• The liberation of affection, 1988.
  
  A conversation with Bill Thorneycroft and Mark Streeves about coming out and gay politics in"e;Radical Records"e;edited byBob Cantand Susan Hemmings, (1988).
  

• Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: male prostitution and the regulation of homosexuality in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, 1980/81.
  

  • Originally published inJournal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, nos 1/2 (1980/81).
    

  • Reproduced inLicata and Peterson (1981), pages 113-34.
    

  • Also reproduced in'Hidden from History', (1989), pages 195-211.
    

• Between the Acts: lives of homosexual men 1885-1967, co-edited withKevin Porter,1991.
  
  1998, revised edition.
  

• Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity, 1991.
  

• Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty, 1995.
  

• Sexual Cultures: Communities, Values and Intimacy, co-edited withJanet Holland, 1996.
  

• The 'Homosexual Role' After 30 Years: An Appreciation ofMary McIntosh, 1998, inSexualities, Volume 1, Number 2.
  
  An assessment of the impact of the 1968 article'The homosexual role'byMary McIntosh.
  

• Same-Sex Intimacies. Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments, with Brian Heaphy and Catherine Donovan, 2001, published in New York and London by Routledge, 245 pages, ISBN 0-415-25476 (hardback)/ 0-415-25477-9 (paperback).
  Reviewed inSexualities, 2002.

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