This selection of recent scholarship addresses sexualities in global perspective. The chapters are grouped into five sections: social and historical approaches to sexualities: the gender of sexuality: sexual identities: globalization: power and resistance: and sexual values and life experiments. Oorspr. uitgave: 2003
In this book Weeks sets out how sexual history has developed and its implications for our understanding of the ways we live today. The emergence of a new wave of feminism and lesbian and gay activism in the 1970s transformed the subject, heavily influenced by new trends in social and cultural history, radical sociological insights and the impact of Michel Foucault’s work. The result was an increasing emphasis on the historical shaping of sexuality, and on the existence of many different sexual meanings and cultures on a global scale. With chapters on, amongst others, lesbian, gay and queer history, feminist sexual history, the mainstreaming of sexual history, and the globalization of sexual history,