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Gentlemen's Disagreement
Peter Hegarty
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Description for Gentlemen's Disagreement
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: JMRN; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and 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 ... Read more
What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226024448
SKU
V9780226024448
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About Peter Hegarty
Peter Hegarty is a reader and head of the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey.
Reviews for Gentlemen's Disagreement
"Peter Hegarty is the first scholar to examine seriously and systematically the connections between the discourses of intelligence and sexuality, both of which were being refashioned in important ways in the United States. Hegarty's use of Lewis Terman and Alfred Kinsey to build his analysis is original and compelling." (John Carson, author of The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and ... Read more