The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study Of Female Sexuality
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few books have reshaped the cultural conversation around female sexuality as profoundly as The Hite Report, a landmark work that gave 3,000 American women — ranging in age from 14 to 78 — an unprecedented platform to articulate their most intimate experiences in their own words. Drawing on an exhaustive nationwide survey, Shere Hite constructs a sweeping and unflinching portrait of women's sexual lives, chronicling their pleasures, frustrations, desires, and the wide gulf that so often existed between their needs and the prevailing social scripts of the era. The report dissects topics ranging from orgasm and intercourse to clitoral stimulation and masturbation, presenting data not as cold statistics but as the living, breathing testimony of real women who had long been silenced by convention. Published in 1976, The Hite Report arrived as a seismic cultural document at the height of the feminist movement, and its reverberations have never fully subsided. Hite's methodology was as bold as her conclusions — she argued that female sexuality had been systematically misunderstood and misrepresented, and she marshalled the evidence to prove it. Her prose is rigorous yet deeply humane, transforming sociological research into something closer to an act of collective liberation. Decades on, the work remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how women's voices, when finally heard, can permanently alter the landscape of human knowledge.
Author: Shere Hite
Format: Paperback
Published: 1976, Dell Publishing
Genre: Gender studies
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few books have reshaped the cultural conversation around female sexuality as profoundly as The Hite Report, a landmark work that gave 3,000 American women — ranging in age from 14 to 78 — an unprecedented platform to articulate their most intimate experiences in their own words. Drawing on an exhaustive nationwide survey, Shere Hite constructs a sweeping and unflinching portrait of women's sexual lives, chronicling their pleasures, frustrations, desires, and the wide gulf that so often existed between their needs and the prevailing social scripts of the era. The report dissects topics ranging from orgasm and intercourse to clitoral stimulation and masturbation, presenting data not as cold statistics but as the living, breathing testimony of real women who had long been silenced by convention. Published in 1976, The Hite Report arrived as a seismic cultural document at the height of the feminist movement, and its reverberations have never fully subsided. Hite's methodology was as bold as her conclusions — she argued that female sexuality had been systematically misunderstood and misrepresented, and she marshalled the evidence to prove it. Her prose is rigorous yet deeply humane, transforming sociological research into something closer to an act of collective liberation. Decades on, the work remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how women's voices, when finally heard, can permanently alter the landscape of human knowledge.