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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.

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"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 Inequality in the French and American Republics)"

Gentlemens Disagreement

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 2 July 2013
      ISBN-13 9780226024448
      978-0226024448
      ISBN-10 022602444X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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 Inequality in the French and American Republics)"

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