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

• Preface and AcknowledgementsAn IntroductionWhat is a History of Sexuality a History of?NarrativesSummary of BookChapter 1: Framing Sexual HistoryTowards a Critical Sexual HistoryTheoretical DetoursBodiesSubjectivities and AffectGenerationsTimes Present, Times Past, Times FutureChapter 2: The Invention of Sexual HistoryThe Magic of WordsThe Natural History of SexualityThe New HistoryThe Emergence of Social ConstructionismChapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex HistoryWhat is Homosexual History?Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic PresentDeconstructing and Reconstructing the HomosexualThe Queer ChallengeBeyond the BinaryMaking ConnectionsChapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and PowerDangers and PleasuresSexual Violence and Sexual HistoryHistoricizing Female SexualitySexuality and the Theory WarsRethinking PowerIntersectionsOn Manliness, Masculinity, and MenChapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual HistoryInto the MainstreamThe Birth of Modern Sexuality?The Normalization of HeterosexualityThe Great TransitionAIDS and the Burdens of HistorySame-sex Marriage and New Patterns of IntimacyChapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual HistoryGlobalizing Sexual HistoryHistorians and Transnational Sexual HistoryPatterns of Sexual HistoryThe Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial CritiqueSexual Regimes, Sexual LivesHistory and Human Sexual RightsChapter 7: Memory, Community, VoiceUnofficial Knowledges and Counter-historyMemory and CommunityThe Sexual ArchiveVoiceLiving Sexual HistorySuggestions for Further ReadingNotesIndex

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

• Preface and AcknowledgementsAn IntroductionWhat is a History of Sexuality a History of?NarrativesSummary of BookChapter 1: Framing Sexual HistoryTowards a Critical Sexual HistoryTheoretical DetoursBodiesSubjectivities and AffectGenerationsTimes Present, Times Past, Times FutureChapter 2: The Invention of Sexual HistoryThe Magic of WordsThe Natural History of SexualityThe New HistoryThe Emergence of Social ConstructionismChapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex HistoryWhat is Homosexual History?Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic PresentDeconstructing and Reconstructing the HomosexualThe Queer ChallengeBeyond the BinaryMaking ConnectionsChapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and PowerDangers and PleasuresSexual Violence and Sexual HistoryHistoricizing Female SexualitySexuality and the Theory WarsRethinking PowerIntersectionsOn Manliness, Masculinity, and MenChapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual HistoryInto the MainstreamThe Birth of Modern Sexuality?The Normalization of HeterosexualityThe Great TransitionAIDS and the Burdens of HistorySame-sex Marriage and New Patterns of IntimacyChapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual HistoryGlobalizing Sexual HistoryHistorians and Transnational Sexual HistoryPatterns of Sexual HistoryThe Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial CritiqueSexual Regimes, Sexual LivesHistory and Human Sexual RightsChapter 7: Memory, Community, VoiceUnofficial Knowledges and Counter-historyMemory and CommunityThe Sexual ArchiveVoiceLiving Sexual HistorySuggestions for Further ReadingNotesIndex

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

• Preface and AcknowledgementsAn IntroductionWhat is a History of Sexuality a History of?NarrativesSummary of BookChapter 1: Framing Sexual HistoryTowards a Critical Sexual HistoryTheoretical DetoursBodiesSubjectivities and AffectGenerationsTimes Present, Times Past, Times FutureChapter 2: The Invention of Sexual HistoryThe Magic of WordsThe Natural History of SexualityThe New HistoryThe Emergence of Social ConstructionismChapter 3: Querying and Queering Same-sex HistoryWhat is Homosexual History?Recovering the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Historic PresentDeconstructing and Reconstructing the HomosexualThe Queer ChallengeBeyond the BinaryMaking ConnectionsChapter 4: Gender, Sexuality and PowerDangers and PleasuresSexual Violence and Sexual HistoryHistoricizing Female SexualitySexuality and the Theory WarsRethinking PowerIntersectionsOn Manliness, Masculinity, and MenChapter 5: Mainstreaming Sexual HistoryInto the MainstreamThe Birth of Modern Sexuality?The Normalization of HeterosexualityThe Great TransitionAIDS and the Burdens of HistorySame-sex Marriage and New Patterns of IntimacyChapter 6: The Globalization of Sexual HistoryGlobalizing Sexual HistoryHistorians and Transnational Sexual HistoryPatterns of Sexual HistoryThe Colonial Legacy and the Postcolonial CritiqueSexual Regimes, Sexual LivesHistory and Human Sexual RightsChapter 7: Memory, Community, VoiceUnofficial Knowledges and Counter-historyMemory and CommunityThe Sexual ArchiveVoiceLiving Sexual HistorySuggestions for Further ReadingNotesIndex

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