Dagmar Herzog

Oct 26, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Dagmar Herzog |Francine Prose |Jeff Sharlet |Jonathan Lyons

Sixty years ago, Alfred Kinsey, a professor of zoology at Indiana University, published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, an 804-page tract documenting impressively high rates of non-normative behavior among ordinary Americans, including widespread premarital intercourse, marital infidelity, homosexuality, and masturbation. The report made a ponderous pretense at being value-free. The scientific facade fooled no one.

Oct 17, 2024 | press.princeton.edu | Dagmar Herzog

The topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and establishing the full humanity of individuals with complex developmental impairments has been an ongoing struggle in every nation in the world, including the U.S. It has taken, and all too often continues to take, enormous dedication, stamina, and creativity to combat the wider public’s as well as politicians’ incomprehension and ambivalence about, if not full-fledged resentment at, the perceived...