Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics

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Titre
Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics
Titre du livre
Histories of Sexology : Between Science and Politics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Paturel Alex, Mottier Veronique, Kraus Cynthia
Editeur
Palgrave MacMillan
Lieu d'édition
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN
9783030658120
9783030658137
ISSN
2569-1317
2569-1309
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Editeur⸱rice scientifique
Giami Alain, Levinson Sharman
Série
Global Queer Politics
Numéro de chapitre
5
Pages
81-102
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Sexual science has often been mobilized to advance progressive sexual rights agendas against conservative, religiously-driven political agendas. This chapter explores a different dynamic, where religious-conservative activists used sexual science to advance their ‘anti-homosexual’ campaign. We focus on the attacks on Kinsey in the US. While the historiography on religious conservatism has highlighted the centrality of religious/moralistic discourses, our analysis of textual sources (from archives of evangelical-political organizations and recently declassified FBI documents) shows that evangelical activists often foregrounded scientific arguments. Women activists played a particularly important role in this discursive battleground, as our political history of the attacks on Kinsey demonstrates.
Mots-clé
Kinsey, FBI, sexology, Christian Right, Judith Reisman, homophobia, anticommunism, evangelical politics
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07/02/2020 20:26
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26/08/2022 6:41
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