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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jeffrey Weeks

Jeffrey Weeks

Born: 1945 (age 80)
Bio: Jeffrey Weeks is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.
Known for:
  1. Sexuality (1986)
  2. Sex, politics, and society (1981)
  3. Making sexual history (2000)
  4. The world we have won (2007)

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