American Sexual Character : Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports.

When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were norm...

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Main Author: Reumann, Miriam G., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "Sexual Order In Our Nation": American Sexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States; Two. "A Missing Sense Of Maleness": Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and the Crisis of American Masculinity; Three. "Much The Same Desires As Men": Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and the "American Woman"; Four. "I'm A Much Better Citizen Than If I Were Single": Remaking Postwar Marriage and Reconfiguring Marital Sexuality.
  • Five. "An Age Of Sexual Ambiguity": Homosexuality and National Character in the Postwar United StatesEpilogue. "All America Is One Big Orgone Box": American Sexual Character Revisited; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.