Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing

Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance,"

This book presents the first assessment of one of the most rapidly expanding fields of research: the history of sexuality. From the early efforts of historians