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The United States during and after Kinsey.(Book review)

Publication: The Journal of Sex Research
Publication Date: 01-MAY-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By Miriam J. Reumann. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005, 294 pp., Cloth, $49.95.

With some 67 pages of annotations, this reference text is a historical analysis of American sexual before,...

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...attitudes during, and after Kinsey. The Kinsey reports, Reumann holds, spurred intensive public discussion about sexual mores on a scale unprecedented in American history. Almost everything is grist for Reumann's mill from poetry, to cartoons, to novels, to movies, to self-help books--nearly everything that might be examined to explore changing patterns of American belief. Also included are long samples of writings from both Kinsey's critics and his supporters.

Unfortunately, Reumann also excludes certain material that would modify, or perhaps even strengthen, some of her analysis. Though she mentions Albert Ellis, she has no mention of Masters and Johnson, Hartman and Fithian, Helen Singer Kaplan, or even Alex Comfort, and the list could go on. Reumann says nothing about SIECUS, SSSS, Planned Parenthood, or any other organized sex group--not scholarly and scientific ones or...

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