by Shere Hite · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422609599
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«El Informe Hite» is Shere Hite's study of female sexuality, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (582 pages, in Spanish).
Based on the testimonies of 3,000 women aged between fourteen and seventy-eight, Shere Hite examines how they experience sexuality, desire and couple relationships, and dismantles some myths about the so-called sexual revolution. The book brings together experiences and frustrations narrated in their own words and offers a new cultural interpretation of female pleasure.
The work originally appeared in English in 1976 under the title The Hite Report; the Spanish edition from Círculo de Lectores was published in 1978.
A reference title for readers interested in sexology, gender studies and the history of feminism.
Shere Hite was an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She was the author of 'the groundbreaking The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976), which became a bestseller. She also referenced theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's essay "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm". She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German.
