“How can you resist a book about sex and intelligence studies with chapters like "
“How can you resist a book about sex and intelligence studies with chapters like "Queer Individuals: Their Nature and Nurture,” “Less Than Ideal Husbands,” and “Why the Gifted Boy Didn’t Masturbate”? You can’t. Out last month from the University of Chicago, Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men [Kindle] re-examines the debate between sexologist Kinsey and smart-ologist Terman: “Through a fluent discussion of intellectually gifted onanists, unhappily married men, queer geniuses, lonely frontiersmen, religious ascetics, and the two scholars themselves, Peter 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.” Hegarty is a former CLAGS board member who works in LGBT and social psychology as head of the School of Psychology at the University of Surrey. Thomas Foster says the book is “a fascinating history of the intersectionality of sexuality and intelligence in the social sciences. Hegarty masterfully weaves together queer theory, history, and psychology to examine how what many in the social science community have defined as normal is constructed and mutually constitutive.” -- source link