Kinsey: A Biography

by Cornelia V Christenson

Overview

Alfred C. Kinsey was perhaps the most controversial figure in the US during the 1950s. His books on sexual behavior in the human male and female made best-seller lists and were translated into thirteen languages. Kinsey was denounced by journalists, clergymen, members of Congress, educators, and even housewives, yet upon his death, the New York Times called him

In Kinsey: A Biography, Cornelia V. Christenson, an assistant to Dr. Kinsey, discloses the man behind the myth. She reveals how this dedicated family man and lover of the great outdoors began his journey as a scientist and ended up studying sexuality. And as Christenson points out, perhaps Kinsey's greatest accomplishment during his long struggle for academic freedom was protecting the freedom of the scientist to explore and analyze any field of inquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253041487
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	10/12/2018
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mrs. Cornelia V. Christenson, a Trustee of the Institute for Sex Research, is author (with Paul H. Gebhard) of Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types, and (with Theodore Robert Bowie) Studies in Erotic Art.  For many years she worked as an assistant to Dr. Kinsey.

Table of Contents

Foreword Herman B Wells vii

Preface x

Individuals Alfred C. Kinsey 3

1 Profiles of Youth 13

2 Student Years 25

3 The First Year at Indiana 40

4 The New Household, Teaching, and Writing 51

5 The Early Thirties-Bug Collecting 70

6 The Pivotal Years (1938-41) 95

7 The Male Book and Full Course Ahead 125

8 The Female Counterpart 147

9 Kinsey the Man 171

10 The Final Lean Years 188

From The Kinsey Papers

1 What I Believe, Alfred C. Kinsey, 1954 207

2 A Scientist's Responsibility in Sex Instruction, Alfred C. Kinsey, 1940 209

3 The Right to Do Sex Research, Alfred C. Kinsey, 1956 215

4 Last Statement, Alfred C. Kinsey, 1956 220

5 New York Times Editorial, 1956 227

6 Alfred Kinsey, by J.B.S. Haldane, 1956 228

Kinsey Publication List 231

Notes 234

Index 237