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"Alfred C. Kinsey's revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. His meticulous methods of data collection, from comprehensive entomological assemblies to personal sex history interviews, raised the bar for empirical evidence to an entirely new level. In The Classification of Sex, Donna J. Drucker presents an original analysis of Kinsey's scientific career in order to uncover the roots of his research methods. She describes how his enduring interest as an entomologist and biologist in the compilation and organization of mass data sets structured each of his classification projects. As Drucker shows, Kinsey's lifelong mission was to find scientific truth in numbers and through observation-and to record without prejudice in the spirit of a true taxonomist. Kinsey's doctoral work included extensive research of the gall wasp, where he gathered and recorded variations in over six million specimens. His classification and reclassification of Cynips led to the speciation of the genus that remains today. During his graduate training, Kinsey developed a strong interest in evolution and the links between entomological and human behavior studies. In 1920, he joined Indiana University as a professor in zoology, and soon published an introductory text on biology, followed by a coauthored field guide to edible wild plants. In 1938, Kinsey began teaching a noncredit course on marriage, where he openly discussed sexual behavior and espoused equal opportunity for orgasmic satisfaction in marital relationships. Soon after, he began gathering case histories of sexual behavior. As a pioneer in the nascent field of sexology, Kinsey saw that the key to its cogency was grounded in observation combined with the collection and classification of mass data. To support the institutionalization of his work, he cofounded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947. He and his staff eventually conducted over eighteen thousand personal interviews about sexual behavior, and in 1948 he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, to be followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. As Drucker's study shows, Kinsey's scientific rigor and his early use of data recording methods and observational studies were unparalleled in his field. Those practices shaped his entire career and produced a wellspring of new information, whether he was studying gall wasp wings, writing biology textbooks, tracing patterns of evolution, or developing a universal theory of human sexuality"-- Provided by publisher.
"Drucker develops a synthetic argument about how Kinsey's scholarship and training as an entomologist and evolutionary scientist affected his teaching, research, writing, and analysis of human behavior. Places Kinsey at the center of trends in American intellectual and scientific life in the mid-twentieth century. Drucker uses the whole of Kinsey's intellectual life to address questions of data collection and scientific objectivity, and whether it is possible to have research approaches and frameworks for studying human sexuality that could satisfy ever-shifting delineations and measurements of objectivity"-- Provided by publisher.

The classification of sex : Alfred Kinsey and the organization of knowledge / Donna J. Drucker.

Gender & American culture.

Gender and American culture

xiii, 259 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer.

The homosexual revolution / by R.E.L. Masters.

Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research / Wardell B. Pomeroy.

532 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Adventures in the orgasmatron : William Reich and the invention of sex / Christopher Turner.

Creating the Kinsey reports : intellectual and methodological influences on Alfred Kinsey's sex research, 1919-1953 / Donna J. Drucker.

ix, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Alfred C. Kinsey : sex the measure of all things a biography / Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

xx, 937 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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

Sex research : studies from the Kinsey Institute / edited by Martin S. Weinberg.

A biopic of Alfred Kinsey's life starting from his childhood with a severe father. Kinsey had a keen interest in biology and his study of gall wasps led to his groundbreaking and controversial study on human sexuality.

Kinsey.

The modernization of sex : Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson / Paul Robinson.

xii, 241 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Kinsey, a biography / Cornelia V. Christenson.

xii, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

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The classification of sex : Alfred Kinsey and the organization of knowledge / Donna J. Drucker.

Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer.

The homosexual revolution / by R.E.L. Masters.

Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research / Wardell B. Pomeroy.

Adventures in the orgasmatron : William Reich and the invention of sex / Christopher Turner.

Creating the Kinsey reports : intellectual and methodological influences on Alfred Kinsey's sex research, 1919-1953 / Donna J. Drucker.

Alfred C. Kinsey : sex the measure of all things a biography / Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

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

Sex research : studies from the Kinsey Institute / edited by Martin S. Weinberg.

Kinsey.

The modernization of sex : Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson / Paul Robinson.

Kinsey, a biography / Cornelia V. Christenson.

Alfred C. Kinsey : a biography / Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

The modernization of sex : Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson / Paul Robinson ; [with a new preface by the author].

Sexual science and sexual politics : American sex research, 1920-1956 / by Lynn Gorchov.

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The classification of sex : Alfred Kinsey and the organization of knowledge / Donna J. Drucker.

Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer.

The homosexual revolution / by R.E.L. Masters.

Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research / Wardell B. Pomeroy.

Adventures in the orgasmatron : William Reich and the invention of sex / Christopher Turner.

Creating the Kinsey reports : intellectual and methodological influences on Alfred Kinsey's sex research, 1919-1953 / Donna J. Drucker.

Alfred C. Kinsey : sex the measure of all things a biography / Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

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

Sex research : studies from the Kinsey Institute / edited by Martin S. Weinberg.

Kinsey.

The modernization of sex : Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson / Paul Robinson.

Kinsey, a biography / Cornelia V. Christenson.

Alfred C. Kinsey : a biography / Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

The modernization of sex : Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson / Paul Robinson ; [with a new preface by the author].

Sexual science and sexual politics : American sex research, 1920-1956 / by Lynn Gorchov.

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