Alfred C. Kinsey : a life / James H. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, James H. (James Howard), 1943-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956.

Kinsey, Alfred C.

Sexologists--United States--Biography.

Sexologists.

Sexology--United States.

Sexology.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 937 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.

Summary:

More than twenty-five years in the making, this Pulitzer Prize-finalist, groundbreaking biography caused great controversy when it was first published. Drawing on tens of thousands of letters gleaned from more than a dozen archives and scores of personal interviews (ranging from members of sexual subcultures who demanded anonymity to congressmen, university presidents, prize-winning scientists, and heads of foundations), James H. Jones shows that the image of the disinterested biologist cultivated by Alfred C. Kinsey was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges in these pages was a social reformer and a zealot who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression.

Contents:

1 The Lot of the Boy in the City 3

2 A Second Darwin 25

3 The Right Stuff 41

4 Be Pure in Thought and Clean in Habit 60

5 Finally, He Just Rebelled 85

6 Loosen Up a Bit More, Al 102

7 Ah, I Perceive That You Are an Entomologist 128

8 We Sort of Migrated Together 159

9 A Little Imperfect-Too Intolerant 177

10 My Primary Interest Remains with Research 201

11 It Was Done Very, So to Speak, Scientifically 231

12 Positions, Wiggling, and Parasites 263

13 There Isn't Much Science There 290

14 You Can Work Out Your Own Solution 313

15 A Very Strong Regard for Individual Variation 337

16 Why Has No One Cracked This Before? 369

17 The Only Choice That He Could Possibly Make 397

18 Unlimited Funds for the Expansion of Our Program 417

19 To Deal Directly with the Rockefeller Foundation 442

20 We Cannot Use Anyone Who Is Afraid of Sex 465

21 A Report on What People Do 501

22 Properly Placed before the Public 534

23 Successor to Darwin? 564

24 I Hope the Blinds Were Closed 601

25 The Old Attitude about Sex 635

26 A Victorian Image of Female Sexuality 666

27 Damn That Rusk 701

28 Up Against the Wall 738

29 He Helped to Change the Times 759.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: ©1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-894) and index.

ISBN:

0393327248

9780393327243

OCLC:

57169187