Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician), Jeffrey R. Weeks
Jeffrey Weeks may refer to: * Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist) (born 1945), historian and sociologist * Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician) Jeffrey Renwick Weeks (born December 10, 1956) is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist. Weeks is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow. Biography Weeks received his BA from Dartmouth College in 1978, and his PhD in mathematics f ...

Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)
Jeffrey Weeks is an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality. 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. He has been described as "the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s.” Early life Weeks was born in 1945 in the small town of Porth in the Rhondda_Cynon_Taf, Rhondda Valleys in South Wales, historically one of the most famous coal mining areas in the world. His parents were both from mining stock. He grew up in a loving family in an overwhelmingly working class area where a strong sense of community was the basis for everyday life, and was educated in local schools and at Porth County Grammar School, one of the leading boys’ schools in the area. But he increasingly felt a tension between the strongly conservative gender ...
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