Jeffrey Weeks
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
At the core of the ongoing debate over "values" is the issue of sexuality. Indeed, when conservative politicians invoke the notion of "family values," they imply a range of ideals centered around the limitation of sexual freedom. Sex and morality have become hot topics in this age of widespread uncertainty about the location of "right" and "wrong." In Invented Moralities, renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks explores the clashes over sexual values that...
Pub. Date
1991
Description
This is a biographical study of 15 British homosexuals in the period 1885 to 1967, based on extracts from interviews with the men themselves. The men come from a variety of backgrounds, with differing political and social attitudes, yet all experienced the same frustrations, needs and desires.