Sexuality-[New edition]-[Jeffrey Weeks].pdf

KEY IDEAS
Series Editor: PETER HAMILTON
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Designed plement the essful Key Sociologists, this series
covers the main concepts, issues, debates and controversies in sociology
and the social sciences. The series aims to provide authoritative essays
on central topics of social science, such munity, power, work,
sexuality, inequality, benefits and ideology, class, family, etc. Books
adopt a strong individual ‘line’ constituting original essays rather than
literary surveys, and form lively and original treatments of their subject
matter. The books will be useful to students and teachers of sociology,
political science, economics, psychology, philosophy and geography.
THE SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTION MUNITY
ANTHONY , Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Manchester
SOCIETY
DAVID FRISBY and DEREK SAYER, Department of Sociology,
University of Glasgow
SEXUALITY
JEFFREY WEEKS, Social Work Studies Department, University of
Southampton
WORKING
GRAEME SALAMAN, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open
University, Milton Keynes
BELIEFS AND IDEOLOGY
H THOMPSON, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open
University, Milton Keynes
EQUALITY
BRYAN TURNER, School of Social Sciences, The Flinders University
of South Australia
HEGEMONY
ROBERT BOCOCK, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University,
Milton Keynes
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RACISM
ROBERT MILES, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow
POSTMODERNITY
BARRY SMART, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland
CLASS
STEPHEN EDGELL, Department of Sociology, University of Salford
CULTURE
CHRIS JENKS, Department of Sociology, University of London
SEXUALITY
JEFFREY WEEKS
Social Work Studies Department
University of Southampton
London and New York
First published in 1986 by Ellis Horwood Ltd
and Tavistock Publications Ltd
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.
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