Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs

Susan G. Davis is professor emerita of Communication and Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience.

"A more difficult subject is hard to imagine—a self-taught, little-known, irascible scholar who with little support and great opposition delved into some of the darkest corners of culture. Yet this remarkable and utterly engaging biography is the epic story of an unlikely hero as well as a lesson in just how much one person can accomplish in one lifetime. It also evokes an era, one uncomfortably like our own, in which scholars, theologians, politicians, and police wrestle with the unresolved issues of love and death."--John Szwed, author of Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth"A vigorous. . . intellectual biography of [Legman's] peculiar, relentless career." --Times Literary Supplement

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The StrangerChapter Two: Sex ResearcherChapter Three: Kinsey's BibliographerChapter Four: Love & DeathChapter 5: NeuroticaChapter Six: Advanced StudiesChapter Seven: "The Ballad" and The Horn BookChapter Eight: The Key to the FieldsChapter Nine: The Hell DrawerChapter Ten: Under Mt. CheironList of Works ConsultedUnpublished WorksInterviewsArchives of Papers and Letters