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It is only possible to express the feelings of the body through the lacework of meanings that envelop it. Sexuality is as much about language as it is about sexual organs.
Jeffrey Weeks
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Jeffrey Weeks
Born:
1945
(age 80)
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Jeffrey Weeks is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.
Known for:
Sexuality (1986)
Sex, politics, and society (1981)
Making sexual history (2000)
The world we have won (2007)
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