What is Sexual History? (eBook)

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