Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253217261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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po1058 said As uncritical of Kinsey as the Jones book is critical. I chose to read this book because I wanted a balanced account of Kinsey's life and science, unfortunately, this book does not satisfy the requirement. Where the Jones book turns Kinsey into a demon, Gathorne-Hardy seems to want to turn him into a god. Gathorne-Hardy has a well researched account of Kinsey's life and activities, however he constantly tries to justify Kinsey's methods and continually comments on how no one has been able to do better sex research since, a p. Pedr said A scientific pioneer and reformer. Where are you on the Kinsey scale? As a young woman, on a sleepover, did you ever give your girlfriend eyelash kisses all over her body? As a young boy, did you ever have a Platonic crush on a male friend? If you did, you might rate a 1 on the Kinsey scale which goes from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). Being a 0 or a 6 makes you somewhat abnormal or as Kinsey would say rare. You see, terms like normal and abnormal are moral terms and not scie. Excellent biography of Kinsey Arak Gathorne-Hardy's biography is both meticulously researched and well written - and often entertaining, too. Gathorne-Hardy writes in an intimate way as though he's addressing you, the reader, personally. Far from being uncritical, he discusses Kinsey's shortcomings as both a person and scientist as well as Kinsey's genius as a researcher of often taboo subjects that few dared to consider, and also Kinsey as a compassionate social reformer. This is an essential read for an
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy served as a consultant during the filming of the motion picture Kinsey. He is author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny and lives in England.
In this subtle, often witty, penetrating book, he reveals not just a series of new revelations, but whole new aspects of this complex, difficult, contradictory, heroic, obsessive, and ultimately sympathetic man.. " a sympathetic, insightful and highly readable story. Gathorne-Hardy shows us a very human and fallible but ultimately likable Kinsey, impatient and irritable at times, stubborn, willful, certainly a monomaniac about his research interests, whether gall wasps or human sexuality." New York Times Book Review" revises the revisionism and presents Kinsey in an altogether more favorable light a humane and indefatigable sex educator, as well as an unfairly maligned martyr of American priggishness." SalonGathorne-Hardy’s literate, major biography of Kinsey is the first to give a balanced portrait of one of this century’s pioneering researchers and social reformers. The author interviewed in depth surviving family member
". revises the revisionism and presents Kinsey in an altogether more favorable light a human and indefatigable sex educator, as well as an unfairly maligned martyr of American priggishness."" revises the revisionism and presents Kinsey in an altogether more favorable light a human and indefatigable sex educator, as well as an unfairly maligned martyr of American priggishness.""." revises the revisionism and presents Kinsey in an altogether more favorable light a human and indefatigable sex educator, as well as an unfairly maligned martyr of American priggishness.""