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Zusatztext 'This is the most comprehensive historical study of modern sexuality to date. Weeks leaves no topic untouched in his quest to cover the varieties of human sexual experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an essential text for courses on the history of modern European sexuality. Scholars and students alike will benefit from his exhaustive inclusion of every topic from Victorianism to society's modern consideration of LGBT people.'Jennifer D. Thibodeaux! University of Wisconsin-Whitewater! USA'Sex! Politics and Society was groundbreaking when it was first published - and it has fully ?stood the test of time. This new updated edition speaks as eloquently to us now of the intersections of sex and sexuality with culture! politics and society as it did in 1981. It remains lodestone in my work.'Matt Cook! Birkbeck! University of London! UK'For more than three decades! Jeffrey Weeks' Sex! Politics and Society has been an essential guide to the history of sexuality in modern Britain. Like its predecessors! this new edition offers accessible explanations of complex theoretical material! while expertly tracing shifts in attitudes towards! and experiences of! sexuality since 1800. The addition of extended discussions on LBGT rights! same-sex marriage! and the fluidity of gender and sexual identities brings its story up to date. This remains an indispensable work for anyone interested in how people have lived and loved over the past two centuries.'Tracey Loughran! Cardiff University! UK Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University, UK. He has an international reputation for work on the history and sociology of sexuality. His previous publications include The World We Have Won (2007), The Languages of Sexuality (2011), What is Sexual History ? (2016), C oming Out (3rd edition, 2016), and Sexuality (4th edition, 2017). Klappentext A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies. Zusammenfassung A pioneering study which has become an established classic in its field, Sex, Politics and Society offers a comprehensive analysis of the transformations of British sexual life from 1800 to today. Fully updated, this fourth edition examines key new developments and will inspire all readers in history, sociology, and critical sexuality studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements 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 popula...
