Shere Hite

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Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942 in St. Joseph , Missouri as Shirley Diana Gregory ) is a feminist sexologist from the United States . In 1996 she took on German citizenship.

Life and activity

Shirley Diana Gregory, whose parents divorced three years after her birth, was later adopted by her mother's second husband, giving her the surname Hite. She graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in history in 1967 with a Master of Arts degree . Until 1969 she took a postgraduate degree in social history at Columbia University , which she financed with a part-time job as a photo model . She justified the termination of her doctoral studies with the conservative attitude at the time at Columbia University; she later earned a Ph.D. from Nihon University in Tokyo. From 1972 to 1978 Shere Hite led in New York City that the National Organization for Women cooperating Feminist Sexuality Project . From 1978 to 1989 she ran her own research center, Hite Research International .

Shere Hite was best known for her so-called "Hite Reports" (1976/77, 1981, 1987, 1994), in which she examined sexuality, and here especially the feminine, from a feminist point of view and came to results that were common to all Morals and ideals of marriage partially contradicted. Among other things, her results that women masturbate and have extramarital sexual contacts far more frequently than society suspected caused a stir . Conservative circles in the USA in particular protested against what they saw as provocative studies. Hite was exposed to harsh abuse, physical assault and even death threats. However, recognized sociologists and serious media also criticized the reports objectively. Above all, Hite was accused of one-sided data collection and insufficient statistical breadth.

In 1985 Shere Hite married the German pianist Friedrich Höricke , in 1989 she moved to Europe with him and lived temporarily in Cologne ; the marriage lasted until 1999. In 1995 she gave up her US citizenship out of frustration at the intense hostility from her home country and took on German citizenship in 1996 because she considers German society to be more open and open to her work. Shere Hite currently resides in London .

Works (selection)

  • Hite Report: The Sexual Experience of Women (1977)
  • Hite Report: Man's Sexual Experience (1981)
  • Women and Love: The New Hite Report (1987)
  • No Man at Any Price (1992)
  • Hite Report: Eroticism and Sexuality in the Family (1994)
  • Flying with Jupiter (1995)
  • Report on my own behalf: my life, sex and politics (original title: Deep in the Forest are the Dancing Deer, the Song of Myself , translated by Xenia Osthelder and Bernd Rullkötter). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-7857-0827-0 .
  • How Women See Women (1997)
  • Sex & Business (2000)
  • On the pride of being a woman (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.n-tv.de , accessed on October 30, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hite, Shere
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shirley Diana Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Joseph, Missouri