Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)

Jeffrey Weeks (Born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality, and is also a gay activist.

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Career

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 founder member.[1]

Weeks is the author of several books, including Sexuality and its Discontents, (Routledge, 1985), Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1989) and Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain.[2]

He has been on the editorial board of several journals including History Workshop Journal, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Journal of Homosexuality, and Victorian Studies.

He is currently the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University (since 1 August 2003). He is also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005.

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References

  1. ^ Weeks, Jeffrey (May 2007). "Gay Left: An Overview". GAY LEFT COLLECTIVE. http://gayleft1970s.org/intro.asp. Retrieved 28 June 2010. 
  2. ^ "Gay Left". glbtq.com. 2005. p. 3. http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/gay_lesbian_left.html. Retrieved 28 June 2010. 

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