The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

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Sales of this classic have reached 48 million copies worldwide. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report radically re-defined the world's understanding of female sexual experience and it remains to this day essential reading for women of all ages and backgrounds. First published in 1976, this title was the first scientific analysis to focus specifically on women's sexuality. Dr Hite's methodological research challenged the prevailing dominant understanding of female sexuality and put forward a new vision of scientific study.

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A frankness and directness not usually seen in print Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations. Time


The first major literary breakthrough in this field since the work of Masters and Johnson. The Literary Guild

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SHERE HITE, one of the great feminists and cultural anthropologists of our time, is internationally recognized for her work on psychosexual behavior and gender relations. Hite has lectured at universities around the world including the Sorbonne, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and others. Hite also writes regularly for international newspapers and journals.Director of the National Organization for Women's feminist sexuality project from 1972 to 1978, since that time she has directed Hite Research International. Her continuing study of sexual behavior includes majornew discoveries on, for example, male sexuality, teen sexuality, and the relationshipof sexuality to globalization. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, has sold tens of millionsof copies worldwide.