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

Hegarty, PJ (2012) Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA. ISBN 9780226024585

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Abstract

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common—and hotly debated. But rarely have the intersections of these histories been examined. In Gentlemen’s Disagreement, Peter Hegarty enters this historical debate by recalling the debate between Lewis Terman—the intellect who championed the testing of intelligence— and pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and shows how intelligence and sexuality have interacted in American psychology. Through a fluent discussion of intellectually gifted onanists, unhappily married men, queer geniuses, lonely frontiersmen, religious ascetics, and the two scholars themselves, Hegarty 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. And, drawing on Foucault, Hegarty reconciles these legendary figures by showing how intelligence and sexuality in early American psychology and sexology were intertwined then and remain so to this day. Chapters 1 A Gentlemen’s Disagreement? 2 Why the Gifted Boy Didn’t Masturbate 3 Less Than Ideal Husbands 4 Queer Individuals: Their Nature and Nurture 5 Gentlemen and Horse Traders 6 Ancient Ascetics and Modern Non-Americans 7 Frontier Living, by Figures Alone 8 Normalization Now

Item Type:	Book
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Authors :	Authors Email ORCID Hegarty, PJ UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Date :	1 May 2012
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Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	28 Mar 2017 15:28
Last Modified :	28 Mar 2017 15:28
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/804508

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