Sex Surveyed, 1949-1994: From Mass-Observation's Little Kinsey to the National Survey and the Hite Reports

ISBN-13: 9780748403684 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 258 str.

Liz Stanley; Stanley Liz Stanley; Stanley Uni Liz

Opis

This text provides a feminist overview of the development of both the mainstream and the feminist variant of the survey as a means of investigating sexual attitude and behaviour. It examines the origins and development of the sex survey and focuses on the sex survey as a research means for a number of reasons: firstly, sex surveys have been an important means of influencing popular opinion about sexual norms and conventions. Secondly, this approach is of great importance in ideas about science and generalisability and validity. Thirdly, changes and developments in the form and status of the survey from the 1930s through the post-war period are considerably under-researched, especially from a feminist point of view.

Spis treści

Section One: Mass-Observation, Little Kinsey & the Sex Survey Tradition: Introduction: Little Kinsey - Some Feminist Issues and Interests in Britain, by Mass-Observation; From Observing to Surveying, From Seatown to Little Kinsey; Mass-Observation's Sex Research 1937-1949; From Patterns of Marriage to Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles: The Sex Survey in Context; Theorising While Appearing Not To? - Ideas and the British Sex Survey. Section Two: Little Kinsey: Mass-Observation's Sex Survey of 1949: Part A, The survey: Sex Surveyed; Part B, The Mechanics of Sex: The Facts of Life; Sex Education; Birth Control; Part C, Institutions of Sex: Marriage; Divorce; Part D, Outside Marriage: Extra-Marital Relations; Prostitution; Part E, Sex and Life: The Psychology of Sex; Sexual Morality; Opinion Forming. Section Three: The Feminist Surveys Back: Surveying the Survey; Surveying Sex the Mass-Observation Way; Shere Hite & the Feminist Sex Survey; Sex Changes? - Sex Surveys and Social Change.

O autorze

Liz M. T. Tyit