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History of Indiana University, 1968-1981

Interviewee
Kinsey, Clara M. February 17, 1969 

Call Number
68-013

Physical Description

26 pages; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; index

Interviewer
Clark, Thomas D.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Clara M. Kinsey began as a student at Indiana University in 1917 majoring in chemistry. While on campus, she met and married Alfred C. Kinsey. Mrs. Kinsey discusses life in Bloomington in the nineteen twenties. She spends about half of the interview talking about her husband's career; focusing on his studies and collections of gall wasps and then, how he became interested in studying human sexual behavior and the reactions to his studies in this area.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Indiana University
    • Indiana University Department of Botany
    • Indiana University Department of Zoology
    • Sigma Xi
    • Women's Athletic Association
    • Occupation Names
    • entomologist
    • professor
    • Personal Names
    • Eigenmann, Carl H.
    • Kinsey, Alfred C.
    • Mottier, David Myers
    • Scott, William
    • Subjects
    • gall wasps
    • human sexuality
    • student life
    • World War I