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Article: American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2006
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American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and national Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By Miriam G. Reumann (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 305pp.).
Miriam Reumann's American Sexual Character is a welcome addition the history of sexuality. Like many recent books on the history of sexuality, American Sexual Character examines discourse rather than behavior. While many such books look at a rather broad period to get at changes in beliefs, this volume restricts the scope of its analysis to a roughly fifteen year period from the end of World War Two until 1960. In doing so, Reumman focuses intently on how the post-war world viewed men, woman, sexual ...