Sexuality

by Jeffrey Weeks

For over twenty years, Sexuality has provided a cutting edge introduction to debates about sexualities, gender, and intimate life. Previous editions included pioneering discussions of the historical shaping of sexuality, identity politics, the rise of fundamentalism, the social impact of AIDS, the influence of the new genetics, ‘global sex’, queer theory, ‘sex wars’, the debates about values, new patterns of intimacy, and much more. In this new edition,

Jeffrey Weeks offers a thorough update of these debates, and introduces new concepts and issues. Globalization is now a key way of understanding the reshaping of sexual life, and is discussed in relation to global flows, neo-liberalism, new forms of opposition, cosmopolitanism and the heated debates around sex trafficking and sex tourism. Arguments about the regulation and control of sexuality, and the intersection of various dimensions of power and domination are contextualised by a sustained argument about the importance of agency in remaking sexual and intimate life. In particular, new forms of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer politics, and the high impact of the debates about same-sex marriage are explored. These controversies, in turn, feed into debates about what is ‘transgressive’, ‘normal’, ‘ordinary’; into the nature of heter-normativity; and into the meanings of diversity and choice. To conclude, the book turns to questions of values and ethics, recognition, sexual citizenship and human sexual rights.

This book displays the succinctness, clarity and comprehensiveness for which Jeffrey Weeks has become well known. It will appeal to a wide range of readers internationally.

Genres: Sexuality, Queer, Sociology, Nonfiction, Gender, Queer Studies, Psychology

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 27, 1986

About the author

Jeffrey Weeks OBE (born 1945) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.
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Reviews

[Lalo Carvajal · Rating 3 out of 5]

“A medida que la sociedad se hace más complejas...deberíamos estar mejor preparados para seguir el fluir de las circunstancias: aceptar totalmente las posibilidades que abre un pluralismo moral y social cada vez mayor; aceptar los méritos de la diversidad y la elección sexual, con todas sus ambigüedades y conflictos posibles”

Una hermosa y detallada apología a la diversidad sexual, un texto que trasciende el tema del género y profundiza en todos los aspectos por los que la humanidad ha pasado para llegar a nuestra época.

El autor empieza dando una breve historia de cómo la sociedad construyó poco a poco la sexualidad (estigmas , organización social , religión y reglamentación política), narra aquellas relaciones (quizás evidentes) de la sexualidad y el poder (género , clase y raza) . Propone diferentes significados de la diferencia sexual ( como imperativo biológico / así se nace y su relación con el inconsciente )

Concluyendo con interesantes reflexiones sobre su evolución y visión en tiempos modernos.

Una obra de la cual no puedes prescindir si estás buscando tener un robusto entendimiento o marco histórico de diversos conceptos (a mi punto de vista ) mal empleados en tiempos modernos.

Calificación: 6.5 de 10
Totalmente especializado, con una gran cantidad de referencias literarias (algunas a mi gusto con gran sesgo ) , pero relevante a considerar como iniciación a estudios de género y sociedad .

[Egle · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid read. Nothing too mind-blowing, but that is kind of the purpose of the book (Key ideas series, hello!). It's one of those books you read to help articulate things you already know or suspect.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Well written and short - perfect! The penultimate chapter was the only chapter I felt was not that relevant from a history point of view.

[Wendy Lu · Rating 4 out of 5]

found this one more interesting, want to reread very closely later