J Weeks

Biographic Data

ID11373
NAMEJ Weeks
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEWeeks
SIGNATUREWEEKS J
AFFILIATIONSLondon South Bank University
ORCID0000-0001-7725-1922
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS255
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • The Present as History: Gay Liberation and History Workshop Journal

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    null Jeffrey Weeks became involved in History Workshop through the Gay Liberation movement in the early 1970s. Born and brought up the Rhondda Valleys, a mythologised centre of Welsh labour radicalism he read history in London but became increasingly alienated from the traditional left and conventional History. He became a pioneer of a new lesbian and gay history and was increasingly drawn to the History Workshop movement, becoming an editor of H…

  • Ken Plummer: What it is to be human

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2023

    Ken Plummer’s career embraced a range of interests, and disparate interventions but is marked by a remarkable consistency, rooted in a profound humanistic understanding of the social world. This is most fully expressed in his most recent publication, Critical Humanism, but is a leitmotif throughout his writings since the early 1970s. Whilst many of his contemporaries engaged in wild flirtations with every intellectual fashion from anti-humanism t…

  • Sexual studies and sexual justice

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2018

  • Queer British Art, 1861-1967

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2018

  • Scp>E llis, H avelock (1859–1939)

    Open AccessJ WeeksOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Havelock Ellis was a pioneering British sexologist, critic, and essayist who was to have a major impact on the conceptualization of sexuality in the twentieth century. His intellectual formation was in the radical cultural and political fervent of London in the 1880s, though he himself tended throughout his life to avoid public controversies as best he could. More privately, however, his influence proved to be immense, both through his publicatio…

  • Sexuality

    J WeeksBOOKSexuality2016

    The new edition of Sexuality displays the qualities which have made this book a key text for understanding human sexuality. Jeffrey Weeks blends deep empirical knowledge with theoretical sophistication and a sensitivity to the politics of sexuality. Framing and shaping the analysis is an acute understanding of the world-wide changes that are remaking sexuality and gender, dramatized by the globalization of sex and the rise and rise of cybersex. T…

  • Sexual Orientation: Historical and Social Construction

    Open AccessJ WeeksCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • « La sexualité est forcément politique ». Entretien avec Jeffrey Weeks

    Open AccessJ Weeks, Marion Maudet et al.ARTICLEGenre sexualité & société2015

    Cet entretien avec Jeffrey Weeks offre un aperçu de ses travaux en histoire et en sociologie de la sexualité. Après un retour sur ses principales influences, et sur le contexte social et politique dans lequel il a débuté sa carrière de chercheur, il insiste sur l’importance scientifique tout autant que politique des recherches sur la sexualité. Loin d’être un objet naturel et invariant, celle-ci est toujours en mouvement et apparaît sous des form…

  • Beyond the Categories

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2015References: 8

  • Pleasure and Duty

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEContemporary European History2013References: 1

    Three obvious, superficially simple but actually intensely complex questions embodied in the title immediately confront the reader of Dagmar Herzog's important new book. First, what do we mean by the ‘sexuality’ that constitutes the subject matter? Second, what is demarcated by the Europe that provides the geo-political boundaries of this study? Third, does the ‘twentieth century’ provide a useful temporal unity for the narrative and analysis tha…

  • Obituary

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2013Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Queer(y)ing the “Modern Homosexual”

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEJournal of British Studies2012Cited by: 6References: 12

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  • The Languages of Sexuality

    J WeeksBOOKThe Languages of Sexuality2011

    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 essays on key words and concepts which have played a significant…

  • Postscript: "The Homosexual Role" Revisited [1981] (Jeffrey Weeks and Kenneth Plummer Interview Mary McIntosh)

    Open AccessMary Mcintosh, Kenneth Plummer et al.ARTICLEGenre sexualité & société2011References: 1

    Dans cet entretien, Mary McIntosh revient sur le contexte de production de son article « Le rôle homosexuel » en soulignant ses limites et les amendements qu'elle juge alors utile de lui apporter. Elle regrette d'avoir envisagé la question dans sa dimension essentiellement masculine sans l'avoir interrogée, puis précise qu'il est nécessaire de ne plus considérer l'hétérosexualité comme allant de soi et que l'homosexualité doit être étudiée au tra…

  • Allan Berube: 1946-2007

    J Weeks, Jane C WeeksARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2010

    Journal Article Allan Bérubé: (1946–2007) Get access Jeffrey Weeks Jeffrey Weeks London Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, and is a former editor of History Workshop Journal. His most recent books are The World We Have Won (2007), and Sexuality (3rd edition 2009). He delivered the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture in November 2009. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…

  • Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice

    J WeeksARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2010Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice Get access Jeffrey Weeks Jeffrey Weeks Jeffrey Weeks is a former editor of History Workshop Journal. After a number of years as successively Head of School, Dean, and University Director of Research, he is now Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, and Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and London University Institute of Education. His …

  • Regulation, Resistance, Recognition

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2008

  • Traps We Set Ourselves

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2008

  • The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life

    J WeeksBOOKWorld We Have Won2007

    The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our sexual diversities. This book provides a balance sheet of the changes that have transformed our ways of being, from welfarism to the pill, women's and gay liberation, from globalization, consumeri…

  • Ellis, Havelock (1859–1939)

    Open AccessJ WeeksOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Havelock Ellis, editor, critic, essayist, and pioneer sexologist, was born on February 2, 1859 in Croydon, Surrey. His father was a sea captain and rarely at home, so Ellis's mother was the dominant influence in his early life. She was an ardent evangelical Christian who had experienced a conversion at the age of 17, but Ellis early on slipped away from the more rigid aspects of her faith. He was provided with a basic education in private schools…

  • Obituary: Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952-2006)

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLESexualities2006

  • Remembering Foucault

    J WeeksARTICLEJournal of the History of Sexuality2005

    Forgetting Foucault? Is it time to forget Michel Foucault? Over the past quarter of a century there have been a number of injunctions for us to do so. The first, which became notorious, was a sharp polemical intervention from Baudrillard in 1977. Foucault was already, it seemed, too powerful, so "to forget him was to do him a service; to adulate him was to do him a disservice." This was not so much a forgetting as a Baudrillardian wishing away. L…

  • Fallen Heroes? All about Men

    Open AccessJ WeeksARTICLEIrish Journal of Sociology2005

    The question of what men are and what they want has become central to public debates and private concerns but we cannot understand what is happening if we see it as a problem for men alone. It needs to be considered as part of a long process in which masculinity and femininity, sexual normality and abnormality, and the nature of intimate life are being profoundly shaken. The emergence of a crisis discourse around masculinity has served to obscure…

  • Sexuality

    J WeeksBOOKSexuality2004

    We are almost programmed into thinking of our sexuality as a wholly natural feature of life. But sexual relations are but one form of social relations, as Jeffrey Weeks makes clear in his book. Drawing on the analyses of Michel Foucault, amongst others, the book examines the social, moral and political issues raised by contemporary forms of sexuality. Weeks provides an authoritative introduction to the sociology of sexuality, discussing its cultu…

  • Same-Sex Partnerships

    J WeeksARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2004