Overview

"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. The book is divided into three sections. Section One examines the creation of Mass-Observation and the methodological ideology which lead to the world's first random national sample survey ""Little Kinsey"". Section Two provides a feminist overview of the work of Mass-Observation and its relationship to mainstream social science. Section Three provides an in-depth discussion of the structure and argument of ""Little Kinsey"", and the common-sense ideas or ""sexual theory"" that it advances. This latter section concludes with a discussion of ""sexual change"" as an important theme in the work of both Mass-Observation and the Shere Hite reports."

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Author:   Liz Stanley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780748403677

ISBN 10:   0748403671
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 June 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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