What is Sexual History?

Jeffrey Weeks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at London South Bank University.

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
An Introduction
What is a History of Sexuality a History of?
Narratives
Summary of Book
Chapter 1: Framing Sexual History
Towards a Critical Sexual History
Theoretical Detours
Bodies
Subjectivities and Affect
Generations
Times Present, Times Past, Times Future
Chapter 2: The Invention of Sexual History
The Magic of Words
The Natural History of Sexuality
The New History
The Emergence of Social Constructionism
Chapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex History
What is Homosexual History?
Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic Present
Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Homosexual
The Queer Challenge
Beyond the Binary
Making Connections
Chapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and Power
Dangers and Pleasures
Sexual Violence and Sexual History
Historicizing Female Sexuality
Sexuality and the Theory Wars
Rethinking Power
Intersections
On Manliness, Masculinity, and Men
Chapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual History
Into the Mainstream
The Birth of Modern Sexuality?
The Normalization of Heterosexuality
The Great Transition
AIDS and the Burdens of History
Same-sex Marriage and New Patterns of Intimacy
Chapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual History
Globalizing Sexual History
Historians and Transnational Sexual History
Patterns of Sexual History
The Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial Critique
Sexual Regimes, Sexual Lives
History and Human Sexual Rights
Chapter 7: Memory, Community, Voice
Unofficial Knowledges and Counter-history
Memory and Community
The Sexual Archive
Voice
Living Sexual History
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Index