• DOI:10.1086/493918
• Corpus ID: 143640503

Comment on Rosaldo's "The Use and Abuse of Anthropology"

@article{Nicholson1982CommentOR,
  title={Comment on Rosaldo's "The Use and Abuse of Anthropology"},
  author={Linda J. Nicholson},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={1982},
  volume={7},
  pages={732 - 735}
}

• Linda J. Nicholson
• Published 1 April 1982
• Psychology
• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Finally, Cooper indicts the sex researchers for having no real appreciation for the quality of human relationships: "Masters and Johnson seem to have lost any sense of what human relationships are apart from their sexual functions." Less than a paragraph's breath earlier, however, he accuses them of maintaining "prejudice," of exerting "moral judgment," because "they favor being couples over being single, commitment over cruising." I conclude that Cooper has written a review that proves the truth of a statement made by Thomas Szaz in Sex by Prescription (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1980): "The unremitting hostility of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to homosexuals is, in my opinion, now greatly underestimated, especially by homosexual organizations and their leaders.