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Kinsey, Alfred (Kinsey Institute)

From The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia
Alfred Charles Kinsey was an accomplished biology professor at Indiana University and a pioneer in the study of human sexuality. Kinsey became known for his publication of The Kinsey Reports, two groundbreaking books on sexual behavior that challenged mainstream ideas and attitudes about sex and opened the lid, so to speak, on sexuality in American families. In addition to authoring The Kinsey Reports, he also founded the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. The Kinsey Institute, as it is often called, supports continued scholarship and research in the field of human sexuality and promotes Kinsey's legacy. Kinsey was born June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. He completed his undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College and earned a doctorate in biology at Harvard University. Although Kinsey became a household name because of his human sexuality research, he spent more than 20 years of his early academic career…
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Full text Article Kinsey, Alfred (1894–1956)

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey has been simultaneously praised and vilified for his landmark studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). These works reported higher than previously imagined figures for occurrences of premarital and…
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Full text Article Kinsey, Alfred (1894–1956)

From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
zoologist, sex researcher, reformer Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Kinsey was a sickly child. At his parents’ insistence he spent much time attending the Methodist church, thoroughly absorbing the tenets of evangelical Protestantism. After two fruitless years during which he followed his father's…
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Full text Article KINSEY, ALFRED (1894–1956)

From Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
A professor of zoology at Indiana University, Kinsey and colleagues collected data on human sexuality and sexual histories from 1930 onward. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was published in 1948, followed five years later by a report on human female sexuality; these reports are collectively known…
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Full text Article Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956)

From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
Kinsey Reports sex research sexology Sexual Behavior in the Human Male Sexual Behavior in the Human Female Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894–1956) was the lead author of two key twentieth‐century sex research texts: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). …
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Full text Article Kinsey, Alfred Charles 1894–1956.

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Full text Article Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956

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Full text Article Gebhard, Paul H. (1917–)

From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
heterosexuality homosexuality sex research sexual behavior Paul H. Gebhard is the anthropologist who brought the study of the sexual behavior of primates to the work begun by Alfred Kinsey in the middle of the twentieth century. He was a primary investigator and interviewer for Kinsey, and after…
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Full text Article Kinsey Institute

From The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
erotica Kinsey sex archives sex behavior sexual arousal The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction is a center for interdisciplinary sex research. The library, archives, art and photography collections provide rich resources for scholars and media to document and interpret…
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