Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It shouldn’t be surprising by now that history is full of groundbreaking women whose accomplishments are overlooked and whose ...

Fired up by debates within the women’s movement, Hite decided more research was needed when it came to the female orgasm. She devised and sent out an idiosyncratic, 58-question survey, to which over ...

Nicole Newnham’s documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite (now streaming on Hulu) aims to introduce an almost-forgotten figure of the women’s movement to a new generation. In 1976, Shere ...

This image released by IFC Films shows Shere Hite in a scene from “The Disappearance of Shere Hite.” The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about ...

The groundwork was laid for Nicole Newnham’s Oscar-contending documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite back when the director was just a girl. “I was 12 years old when I discovered The Hite Report ...

When Shere Hite published her book “The Hite Report” in 1976, it disrupted a largely conservative status quo that prevented discussions of sexuality, particularly women’s experiences, from being aired ...

It shouldn’t be surprising by now that history is full of groundbreaking women whose accomplishments are overlooked and whose names get buried. Sex researcher Shere Hite’s near-Stalinist erasure from ...

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It shouldn’t be surprising by now that history is full of groundbreaking women whose accomplishments are overlooked and whose names get buried. Sex researcher Shere Hite’s near-Stalinist erasure from ...

The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous survey responses from about 3,000 women ...