Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)
Jeffrey Weeks | |
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Portrait of Jeffrey Weeks by Mark McNestry | |
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) |
| Occupation | Historian and Sociologist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Education | University College London |
| Period | 1977–present |
| Subject | Gender and Sexuality |
| Literary movement | Gay Liberation |
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Jeffrey Weeks OBE 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. He has been described as "the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s.”