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Sex, Politics and Society - J. Weeks

Sex, Politics and Society

The Regulations of Sexuality Since 1800

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Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2012 | 3rd edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-4082-4830-0 (ISBN)
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Sex, Politics and Society is as much a history of changing patterns of family life, gender, domesticity and intimacy as of erotic life. It firmly places what had traditionally been seen as marginal (notably homosexuality) within the broad stream of sexualities.

J. Weeks strongly emphasises the historical construction of human sexualities and identities, and does so with reference to social context and social change – industrialization, urbanisation, imperialism, the rise of the Welfare state, the emergence of new social movements such as feminism and gay liberation, the development of new forms of social conservatism, and changing legal, medical and informal modes of sexual regulation. In Sex, Politics and Society J. Weeks continues to stress the significance of historical construction, an approach made popular by his previous edition.

Jeffrey Weeks is now Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University and is Visiting Professor at Cardiff University and at London University Institute of Education.  He has published over 20 books and 100 articles, mainly on the social organisation and history of sexuality and intimate life. He has an international reputation for his work, and has been translated, inter alia, into Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. 

Acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Preface

1. Sexuality and the historian

Introduction

Histories of sexuality

Sexuality and power

Sexuality and the politics of history

The making of ‘modern’ sexuality

2. ‘That damned morality’: sex in Victorian ideology

Victorian sexuality: myths and meanings

Emergent patterns

The domestic ideology

Sex and class

3. The sacramental family: middle-class men, women and children

Masculinity and femininity

Birth control

Childhood

4. Sexuality and the labouring classes

Middle-class myths, working-class realities

Traditions, illegitimacy and proletarianisation

The patterns of family life

Respectability and its discontents

5. The public and the private: moral regulation in the Victorian period

Forms of moral regulation

Private morality, public vice

Reform or control?

6. The construction of homosexuality

Homosexuality: concepts and consequences

The sins of sodom

Moral, legal and medical regulation

Identities and ways of life

Intimate lives

7. The population question in the early twentieth century

Population politics

Maternalism

Eugenics

The influence of eugenics

8. The theorisation of sex

A new continent of knowledge

Sex, science and society

Havelock Ellis and sex research

The impact of Freud

9. Feminism and socialism

Sexual radicalism and its limits

Feminism and sexuality

The morals of socialism

10. Sex psychology and birth control

Sex psychology

International movements

Parenthood and birth control

11. Towards a conservative modernity

A ‘glorious unfolding’?

Domesticity and family life

Protecting purity

Psychology and sex delinquency

12. The state and sexuality

Welfare and citizenship

Reproducing the population

Towards the companionate marriage

‘Wolfenden’ and sexual liberalism

13. The permissive moment

The transition

‘Permissiveness’

Youth

Women

Ideologies

The political moment

The limits of permissiveness

14. Personal politics and moral conservatism &nbs

The ebbing tide

Second-wave feminism

The challenge of gay liberation

The new moralism

The Thatcherite experiment

The AIDS crisis

15. A new world?

The changing sexual landscape

Intimate pleasures

Doing families

A gender revolution?

Becoming ordinary: the changing world  of LGBT people

Multicultural Britain?

Values, agency and citizenship

 

Index

Reihe/Serie Themes In British Social History
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 233 mm
Gewicht 700 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4082-4830-1 / 1408248301
ISBN-13 978-1-4082-4830-0 / 9781408248300
Zustand Neuware
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