Bøger af Jeffrey Weeks

Surf and Saltwater Fishing in the Carolinas is the ultimate all-in-one guide to inshore fishing in North and South Carolina. Written by long-time Brunswick Beacon fishing columnist Jeffrey Weeks this book is packed with all the information you need to know about surf and saltwater fishing the Carolina waters. You will find tips and tactics for flounder, redfish, speckled trout, bluefish, pompano, sea mullet, Spanish mackerel, spot, croaker, black drum and even the lesser known fish of the Carolina inshore saltwater scene. Whether you choose to fish from the surf, the shore, the pier, or in a boat Surf and Saltwater Fishing in the Carolinas is the most complete and detailed resource you are going to find.

Lafayette is a southern crime novel about the decadent rise of a charismatic young man from a strip club owner to a corrupt political power broker. It is set in the culture of vice and sin run rampant in a North Carolina town based on the actual city of Fayetteville, NC.

Working from what he calls a radical humanist perspective, Weeks looks at sexual mores in these times of confusion--from AIDS and the challenges of love and death, to the politics of diversity, to controversial topics such as sadomasochism, rape, and abortion rights.

Revised edition of the author's Sexuality, 2009.

Jeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, ofmining stock. As he grew-up he increasingly felt anoutsider in the intensely community minded valleys, afeeling intensified as he became aware of his gayness. Escape came through education. He left for London, touniversity, and to realise his 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 innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities and desires.

This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting.

Examines the historical, social, and political forces which have influenced the development of the contemporary view of sexuality.

Based on extensive interviews, this fascinating new book argues that developments in the non-heterosexual world are closely linked to wider changes in the meaning of family in society. This topical book will provide compelling reading.

From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

aeo An important new book by an internationally renowned writer on the social history of sexuality. aeo Brings together the authora s most important work on the changing patterns of our sexual and intimate lives. aeo Addresses a range of very topical issues such as the experience of living with AIDS and public responses to it.

The new sociology of sexuality has a two-fold aim: to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual; and to analyse how the sexual in turn becomes a focal point for personal identity, cultural anxiety value debates and political action.

Includes one hundred words that are key to the understanding of contemporary sexualities and intimacies. This book shows how meanings change, their need to be contextualized, and how they can become 'magical' in the unfolding of sexual meanings.

Explores the life changes since 1945, from welfarism to the pill and from globalization to individualization. This book argues that this is a world we are increasingly making for ourselves, a world we have won.

From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.