Gentlemen''s Disagreement - Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

Through a fluent discussion of intellectually gifted onanists, unhappily married men, lonely frontiersmen, religious ascetics, and the two scholars themselves, the author traces the origins of Terman's complaints about Kinsey's work to show how the intelligence testing movement was much more concerned with sexuality than we might remember.

About the author

Peter Hegarty is Reader and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey.

Summary

Through a fluent discussion of intellectually gifted onanists, unhappily married men, lonely frontiersmen, religious ascetics, and the two scholars themselves, the author traces the origins of Terman's complaints about Kinsey's work to show how the intelligence testing movement was much more concerned with sexuality than we might remember.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hegarty, Hegarty Peter
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2013
• EAN: 9780226024448
• ISBN: 978-0-226-02444-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, United States of America, USA, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour