20th-century theories and concepts of sex

Author: Jeffrey Weeks, Song Wenwei, Hou Ping
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Jeffrey Weeks is a professor of sociology at South Bank University and a highly acclaimed social historian. This book collects some of his important works that narrate the changing patterns of sexuality and intimacy in our time. The book discusses sex theorists from Havelock Ellis to more recent figures like Michel Foucault. Jeffrey Weeks examines the social and political contexts in which they wrote and explores the role their works played in shaping our concepts of sexuality and intimacy. The second part of the book explores how sociologists and historians have revisited sexuality and how new sexual and social movements have recreated "love." The book investigates the impact of HIV/AIDS in this century, which has transformed private lives, along with gradual changes, and examines sexual attitudes and thought at the turn of the millennium.