Untangling history’s greatest controversies. Every month, we take a hard look at the historical conflicts that raise difficult questions, stoke controversy, and send our moral compasses spinning.
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Untangling history’s greatest controversies. Every month, we take a hard look at the historical conflicts that raise difficult questions, stoke controversy, and send our moral compasses spinning.
In January of 1948, Alfred Kinsey releases his first book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, igniting a firestorm of controversy across the United States. As the Professor scrambles to capitalize on his newfound fame and pen a sequel, his methodology comes under attack from skeptical academics and religious conservatives. Meanwhile, Kinsey’s research team at the Institute of Sex Research embarks on a series of increasingly bizarre – and politically dangerous – sexual adventures.
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Allen, Judith A. The Kinsey Institute: The First Seventy Years. 2017.
Brenot, Phillipe. The Story of Sex. 2016.
D’Emilio, John. Freedman, Estelle. Intimate Matters: The History of Sexuality in America. 1988.
Donna J. Drucker, “‘A Noble Experiment’: The Marriage Course at Indiana University, 1938-1940,” IMH September 2007 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27792817?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents
Gary, Brett. Dirty Works. Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution. 2021.
Hardy, Gathorne. Sex: The Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. 1998.
Hegarty, Peter. Gentlemen’s Disagreement. 2013.
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Wimpee, Rachel. Iacobell, Teresa. “Funding a Sexual Revolution: The Kinsey Reports.” Jan 9 2020. Rockefeller Archive Center.
https://resource.rockarch.org/story/funding-a-sexual-revolution-the-kinsey-reports/
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Conflicted: A History Podcast
Untangling history’s greatest controversies. Every month, we take a hard look at the historical conflicts that raise difficult questions, stoke controversy, and send our moral compasses spinning.
