Shere Hite
| Shere Hite | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shirley Diana Gregory November 2, 1942 Saint Joseph, Missouri |
| Residence | Germany |
| Citizenship | German (formerly American) |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Sexology |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Known for | Research pertaining to female sexuality |
Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942) is an American-born Germansex educator and feminist. Her sexological work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She also references theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm. She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German.
Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in Saint Joseph, Missouri to Paul and Shirley Hurt Gregory. She later took the surname of her stepfather, Raymond Hite. She graduated from Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach, Florida. She received a masters degree in history from the University of Florida in 1967. She then moved to New York City and enrolled at Columbia University to work toward her Ph.D. in social history. Hite says that the reason for her not completing this degree was the conservative nature of Columbia at that time. In the 1970s, she did part of her research while at the National Organization for Women. She appeared nude in Playboy while studying at Columbia University and also posed provocatively in a typewriter ad to earn money for her college fees, but when she read the ad's strapline, "The typewriter is so smart she doesn't have to be", she joined a feminist protest against the ad she had appeared in.
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