Name Jeffrey Weeks | Role Sociologist | |
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Books Sex - politics - and society, The world we have won, Same sex intimacies, Sexuality and its discontents, Coming Out: Homosex |
Carol smart discusses her work with jeffrey weeks highlights leading manchester sociologists
Jeffrey Weeks OBE (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.
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Carol smart discusses her work with jeffrey weeks full version leading manchester sociologists
Career
He is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain that emerged from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) which he joined in 1970 and the Gay Left of which he was a founding member.
Weeks is the author of several books, including Sexuality and its Discontents, (Routledge, 1985), Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1989) and Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain.
He has been on the editorial board of several journals including History Workshop Journal, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Journal of Homosexuality, and Victorian Studies.
He was the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University (2003-2008). He was also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005-2009. He was featured in the 2017 Pinc List of leading LGBTQ figures in Wales.
Weeks was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to social science.