At the dawn of the sexual revolution : reflections on a dialogue / Ira L. Reiss and Albert Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiss, Ira L.

Contributor:

Ellis, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reiss, Ira L.

Ellis, Albert, 1913-2007.

Sexual ethics.

Ellis, Albert.

Ellis, Albert--Correspondence.

Reiss, Ira L--Correspondence.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press, [2002]

Summary:

Long before the sexual revolution, Albert Ellis and Ira L. Reiss had been writing about sexuality in America. In the 1950s, the two social scientists began to exchange letters on their views of sexuality and other related values such as religion and ethics. Their letters reveal the insight of two leading sexual scientists at the very time that the sexual revolution was dawning in America. They provide a fascinating chronicle of the controversial sexual and other issues of the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time they enrich this early correspondence by revealing in depth just how and why their current views of sexuality in America have changed.

Contents:

Abstinence is dethroned but what about casual sex? Letters from July 7, 1956 to April 2, 1957

Enter ethics, religion, and publications : letters from April 5, 1957 to September 7, 1957

Therapeutic ideas and the launching of a sexual science organization : letters from November 10, 1957 to November 3, 1959

New books and new institutes blossom forth : letters from February 22, 1960 to October 4, 1967

Overall changes in my views / Albert Ellis

Taking stock of my past and present views / Ira L. Reiss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0759102724

0759102732

OCLC:

50634733