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Bezig met laden... Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Lifedoor James H. Jones
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In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey cultivated of disinterested biologist was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. By any measure he was an extraordinary man--and a man with secrets.Drawing upon never before disclosed facts about Kinsey's childhood, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his tortured upbringing. Between the sexual tensions of the culture and Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones depicts Kinsey emerging from childhood with psychological trauma but determined to rescue humanity from the emotional and sexual repression he had suffered. New facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich this portrait of the complicated, troubled man who transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)306.70973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Biography And History North America United StatesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. W.W. Norton2 edities van dit boek werden gepubliceerd door W.W. Norton. Edities: 0393040860, 0393327248 |
From what I understand of his work, I wouldn’t really trust the Kinsey Reports to do what they are billed as doing. Kinsey was too bent on clobbering you with data and too bitterly anti-Victorian in a scientific sense to see value in the non-mathematical, even for sex. This doesn’t mean for me that sex research has no place, only that it cannot willfully dismiss all restraint with contempt as lack of toleration.
However, I don’t think Kinsey was a stupid or unsympathetic man, and the story of his journey through the post-Victorian period is worth knowing about. I too, in my life, have been exposed to fearful Victorianism and responded with bitter anti-Victorianism, and I know that this cycle is part of many people’s stories. Perhaps it is a story that needs to be told. At any rate, I know that if I have been given the grace to go beyond what I was before, still it is but for the grace of God that I do not walk another path, to which ill fortune in another world might have confined me. Certainly I know now that I am not alone, and I would that the Kinseys of the world to know that they have never been alone.