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| ==Early life, education, and career== | ==Early life, education, and career== |
| According to Katharine Q. Seelye, Hite was born '''Shirley Diana Gregory''' in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]] to Paul and Shirley Hurt Gregory.<ref name="seelye" /> Shortly after the end of World War II, her parents divorced. When her mother remarried, she took the surname of her stepfather Raymond Hite.<ref name="seelye" />{{r|NovelGuide.com}} According to her friend Joanna Briscoe, Hite had never known her father, and had been abandoned twice by her mother; her grandparents raised her until they divorced, and she was sent to be raised by an aunt. | According to ''The New York Times'' and Katharine Q. Seelye, Hite was born '''Shirley Diana Gregory''' on 2 November 1942, in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]] to military serviceman Paul Gregory, who worked in aviation (a flight controller), and 16 year-old Shirley (née Hurt) Gregory, later a teacher.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/2020091...mes.com/2020/09/11/books/shere-hite-dead.html</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/15/shere-hite-obituary</ref><ref name="seelye" /> Shortly after the end of World War II, her parents divorced. When her mother remarried, legally adopted,<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hite-shere-1942</ref> she took the surname of her stepfather Raymond Hite (a truck driver).<ref name="seelye" />{{r|NovelGuide.com}} According to her friend Joanna Briscoe, Hite had never known her father, and had been abandoned twice by her mother; her grandparents raised her until they divorced, and she was sent to be raised by an aunt in Florida.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...60e96e-f397-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html</ref> |
| Hite graduated from [[Seabreeze High School]] in Daytona Beach, Florida. After she received a master's degree in history from the University of Florida in 1967, she moved to New York City and enrolled at Columbia University to work toward her Ph.D. in [[social history]].<ref name="seelye" /> Hite said that the reason for her not completing this degree was the conservative nature of Columbia at that time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bindel |first1=Julie |title=Shere Hite obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/15/shere-hite-obituary |access-date=12 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=15 September 2020}}</ref> She posed in the nude for ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine while studying at Columbia University.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 1971|title=Personal Visions of the Erotic|url=https://www.iplayboy.com/issue/19711201|journal=Playboy|pages=140–149}}</ref>{{r|Courtney}} | Hite graduated from [[Seabreeze High School]] in Daytona Beach, Florida. After she received a master's degree in history from the University of Florida in 1967, she moved to New York City and enrolled at Columbia University to work toward her Ph.D. in [[social history]].<ref name="seelye" /> Hite said that the reason for her not completing this degree was the conservative nature of Columbia at that time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bindel |first1=Julie |title=Shere Hite obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/15/shere-hite-obituary |access-date=12 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=15 September 2020}}</ref> |
| :"she paid for her tuition (at Columbia University) by doing modeling jobs, which ran the gamut from sitting for book illustrations to (nude) shoots for Playboy"<ref>https://time.com/6333181/the-disappearance-of-shere-hite-documentary/</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 1971|title=Personal Visions of the Erotic|url=https://www.iplayboy.com/issue/19711201|journal=Playboy|pages=140–149}}</ref>{{r|Courtney}} | |
| :"she posed for was Olivetti typewriters"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/2020091...mes.com/2020/09/11/books/shere-hite-dead.html</ref> | |
| In the 1970s, she did part of her research while at the [[National Organization for Women]]. Her most well-known work, ''The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality.'', was published in 1976. | In the 1970s, she did part of her research while at the [[National Organization for Women]]. Her most well-known work, ''The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality.'', was published in 1976. |
| In 1988, she made an [[After Dark (TV programme)#Shere Hite and "Marriage"|extended appearance]] on the British TV discussion programme ''[[After Dark (TV programme)|After Dark]]'', alongside [[James Dearden]], [[Mary Whitehouse]], [[Joan Wyndham]], and [[Naim Attallah]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Marriage: What Do Women Want? |date=1988-02-26 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5457650/ |series=After Dark |access-date=2022-11-07}}</ref> | In 1988, she made an [[After Dark (TV programme)#Shere Hite and "Marriage"|extended appearance]] on the British TV discussion programme ''[[After Dark (TV programme)|After Dark]]'', alongside [[James Dearden]], [[Mary Whitehouse]], [[Joan Wyndham]], and [[Naim Attallah]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Marriage: What Do Women Want? |date=1988-02-26 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5457650/ |series=After Dark |access-date=2022-11-07}}</ref> |
| :"death threats caused her to leave the US and move to Europe"<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54120483</ref> | |
| In 1989, she was interviewed in London by [[Joanna Briscoe]], who later became her friend, and whose flat she often lived in. Eighteen months later she left the United States because of "vicious media attacks, doorstepping, public humiliation and death threats, all of which contributed to the loss of her American publishers and of her ability to make a living", despite ''The Hite Report'' selling 50m copies, estimated to be the 30th bestselling book of all time. According to Briscoe she commuted between Paris, the Kensington Hilton and a mattress on the floor of a [[Squatting|squat]] in north London, and perpetually swung between spending and thrift. Between 1991 and 1997, she lived largely in France and Briscoe's small flat. She tended to write all night and sleep all day. Briscoe said that Hite "had an extraordinary effect on people – possessing a strange, delicate charisma that hooked them".<ref name=briscoe>{{cite news| last=Briscoe | first=Joanna | title=My life with Shere Hite: the forgotten feminist who changed sex for ever |newspaper=The Guardian | date=24 January 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-forgotten-feminist-who-changed-sex-for-ever}}</ref> | In 1989, she was interviewed in London by [[Joanna Briscoe]], who later became her friend, and whose flat she often lived in. Eighteen months later she left the United States because of "vicious media attacks, doorstepping, public humiliation and death threats, all of which contributed to the loss of her American publishers and of her ability to make a living", despite ''The Hite Report'' selling 50m copies, estimated to be the 30th bestselling book of all time. According to Briscoe she commuted between Paris, the Kensington Hilton and a mattress on the floor of a [[Squatting|squat]] in north London, and perpetually swung between spending and thrift. Between 1991 and 1997, she lived largely in France and Briscoe's small flat. She tended to write all night and sleep all day. Briscoe said that Hite "had an extraordinary effect on people – possessing a strange, delicate charisma that hooked them".<ref name=briscoe>{{cite news| last=Briscoe | first=Joanna | title=My life with Shere Hite: the forgotten feminist who changed sex for ever |newspaper=The Guardian | date=24 January 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-forgotten-feminist-who-changed-sex-for-ever}}</ref> |
| Hite taught at Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan), Chongqing University in China, and Maimonides University in North Miami Beach, Florida.{{r|Jayson}} | Hite taught at [[Nihon University]] (Tokyo, Japan), [[Chongqing University]] in China, and Maimonides University,<ref>https://americanboardofsexology.org...utions/american-academy-of-clinical-sexology/</ref> in North Miami Beach, Florida.{{r|Jayson}} |
| ==Research focus== | ==Research focus== |
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| * ''The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalization and Private Life'' (2006) | * ''The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalization and Private Life'' (2006) |
| ==Notes== | ==References== |
| {{Reflist|refs= | {{Reflist|refs= |
| <ref name="Bach-cantanas.com"> | <ref name="Bach-cantanas.com"> |
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| {{Commons category}} | {{Commons category}} |
| *{{official website|http://www.hiteresearchfoundation.org/}} – Hite Research Foundation | *{{official website|http://www.hiteresearchfoundation.org/}} – Hite Research Foundation |
| *[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/11682 Papers of Shere Hite, 1916-2007] at [[Schlesinger Library]], [[Radcliffe Institute]], Harvard U | |
| *[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/6176 Video and motion picture collection of Shere Hite, ca.1978-2006] at [[Schlesinger Library]], [[Radcliffe Institute]], Harvard U | |
| :*Shere Hite. [ | |
| *https://groveatlantic.com/author/shere-hite/ | |
| *https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hite-shere-1942 | |
| *{{NPG name|id=69109}} | *{{NPG name|id=69109}} |
| *https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/shere-hite | |
| {{Authority control}} | {{Authority control}} |
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