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Jeffrey Weeks

British historian and sociologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1945 · age 81

Jeffrey Weeks is a historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality. 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 founding member.

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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He has been described as "the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s.”

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1945 · age 81