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Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life

James H. Jones

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Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life

In this biography of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, Jones unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Here is an incisive portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. The public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges here was a social reformer who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times.

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Year
1997
ISBN-13
9780756775506
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Sex researchAlfred Kinsey's lifeSexuality and social reform

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