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Title: Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life by James H. Jones ISBN: 0-393-04086-0 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Mean Book
Comment: Jones certainly did his homework, but the work comes across as mean, even vindictive. He shows Kinsey is the harshest light and he comes across as excessively judgmental. A more recent book, Sex - the Measure of All Things by Jonathan Gathorne Hardy is a kindler and more balanced look at Kinsey and his work. I recommend starting with that. Kinsey was a great pioneer -- not perfect -- but a true giant in opening up to the doors to our sexuality. The Christian right has spent the last thirty years trying to discredit Kinsey's work and take us back to the 19th Century.
Rating: 2
Summary: Great Story, Terrible Book
Comment: "Awkward" and "provincial" wrote the NY Times reviewer, and I can't disagree. To get an idea of the biographer's perspective on Kinsey, consider that he refers to an interest in S/M as "peculiar," and closes by predicting that had the atheistic Kinsey lived to see the age of AIDS, he would have seen AIDS as the work of a "wrathful God."
Rating: 2
Summary: Thorough, biassed and both scientifically and sexually naive
Comment: James Jones's biography of Alfred c Kinsey is a valuable antidote to the hagiographies and demonologies published so far. Jones presents the nastier sides of his subject's personality and exposes his strategically concealed sexual practices. However, Jones presents Kinsey as a pervert and charlatan, failing to understand the moral and scientific rationales for Kinsey's approach to sex research and thus totally misrepresents both the man and his achievement. Jones's last-page sop to Kinsey's greatness seems to be a cowardly after-thought to a bilious, splenetic and angry book.
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Title: Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy ISBN: 0253337348 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme by Judith A. Reisman ISBN: 0966662415 Publisher: Hartline Marketing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Charles Kinsey ISBN: 0721654452 Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div Pub. Date: 01 March, 1948 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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