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Alfred C. Kinsey's revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. His meticulous methods of data collection, from comprehensive entomological assemblies to personal sex history interviews, raised the bar for empirical evidence to an entirely new level. In The Classification of Sex, Donna J. Drucker presents an original analysis of Kinsey's scientific career in order to uncover the roots of his research methods. She describes how his enduring interest as an entomologist and biologist in the compilation and organization of mass data sets structured each of his classification projects. As Drucker shows, Kinsey's lifelong mission was to find scientific truth in numbers and through observation--and to record without prejudice in the spirit of a true taxonomist.
Kinsey's doctoral work included extensive research of the gall wasp, where he gathered and recorded variations in over six million specimens. His classification and reclassification of Cynips led to the speciation of the genus that remains today. During his graduate training, Kinsey developed a strong interest in evolution and the links between entomological and human behavior studies. In 1920, he joined Indiana University as a professor in zoology, and soon published an introductory text on biology, followed by a coauthored field guide to edible wild plants.
In 1938, Kinsey began teaching a noncredit course on marriage, where he openly discussed sexual behavior and espoused equal opportunity for orgasmic satisfaction in marital relationships. Soon after, he began gathering case histories of sexual behavior. As a pioneer in the nascent field of sexology, Kinsey saw that the key to its cogency was grounded in observation combined with the collection and classification of mass data. To support the institutionalization of his work, he cofounded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947. He and his staff eventually conducted over eighteen thousand personal interviews about sexual behavior, and in 1948 he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, to be followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
As Drucker's study shows, Kinsey's scientific rigor and his early use of data recording methods and observational studies were unparalleled in his field. Those practices shaped his entire career and produced a wellspring of new information, whether he was studying gall wasp wings, writing biology textbooks, tracing patterns of evolution, or developing a universal theory of human sexuality.
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Biographers and scholars from multiple disciplines have examined many elements of the life and work of Alfred Kinsey, and much is known of his personal history and central role in the history of the scientific study of human sexuality. This small volume makes a large contribution to the understanding of a less-examined aspect of Kinsey's professional life, specifically the intellectual and professional contributions of his early work as a biologist, taxonomist, and educator to his history-making work in the classification of human sexual behavior. Drucker (guest professor, Technische Univ., Darmstadt, Germany) compellingly traces the emergence of the sexuality scientist from the biologist who collected/classified gall wasps to the teacher of future biology instructors who successfully incorporated difficult topics (e.g., evolution, human sexuality/reproduction) into high-school-level life sciences courses to the professor who taught the famous marriage course at Indiana University using his interpretation of the scientific method. For Kinsey, the tools and methods of a natural scientist, including objective, nonjudgmental methods, collection techniques, classification systems, and data analysis procedures, became integral to his philosophy of science and his emergence as a human sexuality scientist. Drucker's depiction of Kinsey as the taxonomist, always the collector and classifier, provides another insight into his personal and professional complexity. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, general, and professional collections. --Pat Lefler, Bluegrass Community & Technical College
目录
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Learning the Trade, Creating a Collector | p. 14 |
2 The Evolution of a Taxonotnist | p. 38 |
3 Teaching Life and Human Sciences | p. 63 |
4 Ordering Human Sexuality | p. 88 |
5 The Taxonomy and Classification of Human Sexuality | p. 116 |
6 The Boundaries of Sexual Categorization | p. 142 |
Conclusion | p. 164 |
Notes | p. 173 |
Bibliography | p. 209 |
Index | p. 235 |