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Shere Hite

(1942–2020) Novelist

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Shere Hite was a novelist, best known for Hite Report Women & Love.

Quick Facts About Shere Hite

Born
November 2, 1942
Died
September 9, 2020
Profession
Novelist
Notable works
Hite Report Women & Love

About Shere Hite

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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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