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Shere Hite

The author, sex educator, and feminist Shere Hite is known for her groundbreaking research on female sexuality.

Writer Shere Hite, author of "Hite Report" and new book "Women and Love." Bettye Lane Photographs. Hollis ID: 8000905303

Author, sex educator, and feminist, Shere Hite is known for her groundbreaking research on female sexuality. From 1972 to 1982, she directed the feminist sexuality project for the National Organization for Women, New York Chapter. In 1976, she published her influential study The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, which was based on anonymous responses to questionnaires in which women detailed their sexual experiences. She later published additional studies based on responses to questionnaires, including The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981), The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up under Patriarchy (1994), and The Hite Report on Women Loving Women (2007), among others. Hite lectured internationally, became a regular columnist for several newspapers, and in the late 1990s, founded the Hite Research Foundation to increase the visibility and potential of women around the world

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Group of women attending NOW conference in Houston Group of women attending NOW conference in Houston Group portrait of NOW founders at NOW's organizing conference in Washington, DC Women at National ERA March Women holding NOW and "Lesbian Rights" signs at Lake Worth Gay/Lesbian Pride event People attending the NOW demonstration

Records of the National Organization for Women

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Betty Friedan at Second Women's March Betty Friedan at Second Women's March Betty Friedan at podium Betty Friedan, seated with copies of her book Portrait of Betty Friedan working at a desk with a typewriter Portrait of Betty Friedan in Junior High School

Betty Friedan

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Norma Swenson and Betsy Cole at exhibit booth for Our Bodies, Ourselves Founders of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, publicity photograph, copy print Norma Swenson and Betsy Cole at exhibit booth for Our Bodies, Ourselves Group of women at International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)/World Health Organization meeting, holding a copy of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves

Boston Women’s Health Book Collective Records

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