Jeffrey Weeks (born 1945, in

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) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.

Career

Weeks is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain that emerged from the

Gay Liberation Front Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was the name of several gay liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots. Similar organizations also formed in the UK and Canada. The GLF provided a ...

(GLF) which he joined in 1970 and the

Gay Left Gay Left was a collective of gay men and a journal of the same name which they published every six months in London between the years 1975 and 1980. It was formed after the dissolution of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Gay Marxist Gro ...

of which he was a founding member. Weeks is the author of several books, including ''Coming Out'' (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain, ''Sex, Politics and Society'' (Longman, 1981), and '' Sexuality and Its Discontents'' (Routledge, 1985). He has been on the editorial board of several journals including ''

History Workshop Journal The ''History Workshop Journal'' is a British academic history journal published by Oxford University Press. ''History Workshop'' was founded in 1976 by Raphael Samuel and others involved in the History Workshop movement. Originally sub-titled "A ...

'', the ''

Journal of the History of Sexuality The ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1990 and published by the University of Texas Press. Indexing The ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' is indexed and/or abstracted in '' America: ...

'', the ''

Journal of Homosexuality The ''Journal of Homosexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts. History The founding editor-in-chief was Char ...

'', and ''

Victorian Studies ''Victorian Studies'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Indiana University Press. It covers research on nineteenth-century Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and publishes essays, forums, and reviews ...

''. He was the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at

London South Bank University London South Bank University (LSBU) is a public university in Elephant and Castle, London. It is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name. Founded in 1892 as the Borough Po ...

(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 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to social science.

Authored books

*''Socialism and the New Life'' (with

Sheila Rowbotham Sheila Rowbotham (born 27 February 1943) is a British socialist feminist theorist and historian. Early life Rowbotham was born on 27 February 1943 in Leeds (in present-day West Yorkshire), the daughter of a salesman for an engineering company a ...

), Pluto Press, 1977 *''Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present'', Quartet Books 1977; 2nd revised edition, with new chapter and bibliography, 1990 *''Sex, Politics and Society. The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800'', Longman 1981; 2nd edition, with additional chapter and new bibliography, 1989 *''Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities'', Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Published in Spanish edition as ''El Malestar de la Sexualidad: Significados, Mitos y Sexualidades Modernas'', Madrid, Talasa Ediciones S.L, 1993 *''Sexuality'', Ellis Horwood/Tavistock, 1986. Published in Spanish translation as ''Sexualidad'', Mexico City, PUEG/ Editorial Paidos, 1998. Published in Japanese, 1999. Revised second English edition, Routledge 2003 *''Between the Acts. Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967'' (with Kevin Porter), Routledge, 1990; 2nd edition, with new Preface, Rivers Oram Press, 1998 *''Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity'', Rivers Oram Press, 1991 *''Invented Moralities. Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty'', UK: Polity Press, US: Columbia University Press, 1995 *''Making Sexual History'', Polity Press, 2000, pp x + 256, (HB), 0 7456 2115 5 (PB); Chinese language edition, Nanjing 2001 *''Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life Experiments'' (with Brian Heaphy and Catherine Donovan), Routledge, 2001, pp ix + 245, (hbk), 0 415 25477 9 (pbk) *''Sexuality'', Revised second edition, pp xii + 164, Routledge 2003, (hbk), 28286 1 (pbk). French translation : ""Sexualité"", Lyon, 2014. *''The World we have won'', Routledge 2007. Japanese translation, 2016. *''Sexuality'', Third edition, Routledge 2010.

References

External links

Jeffrey Weeks homepage at London Southbank UniversityGay Left archive web site
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