Kinsey - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny ! The Public School Phenomenon and The Interior Castle ! a biography of Gerald Brenan. Klappentext Alfred Kinsey was the twentieth century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. For this remarkable biography - which forms the basis of a major film - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has interviewed in depth Kinsey's remaining family, his close colleagues, friends and lovers. Zusammenfassung Alfred Kinsey was the twentieth century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. For this remarkable biography - which forms the basis of a major film - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has interviewed in depth Kinsey's remaining family, his close colleagues, friends and lovers.

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Meticulous and energetic, critical where necessary, never coy, with some brilliant swerves of presentation and a delicious line in low-key humour. Sex, of course, is endlessly gripping but Gathorne-Hardy gives a sense of lifting the subject out of the mean and shabby into a wonderful, humane light, paralleling precisely what Kinsey himself did Duncan Fallowell Daily Express

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.02.2005
• EAN: 9781844138364
• ISBN: 978-1-84413-836-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour