"This important biography of reformer Katharine Bement Davis is long overdue. Jabour deftly narrates Davis's notable life and work, restoring Davis to her rightful place in history as one of the most important sex researchers of the twentieth century."
-Wendy L. Rouse
"Deeply researched, well written, and with lively detail, this nuanced study make a strong case for Davis's importance. Her widely read research on women and sexuality, published in the 1920s, challenged traditional norms about women's sexuality, and assumptions about the pathology of same sex relations. In our own times, with battles raging over gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights, learning about Davis's courageous, pioneering work can be inspiring."
-Miriam Cohen
"Revelatory and compulsively readable, Matters of Sex restores Katharine Bement Davis to her rightful place as the foremother of sexuality studies, and as a blazing intellect undeterred by taboo at a time when censorship had a heavy hand on American culture. Jabour's richly detailed, exhilarating narrative takes on American puritanism and patriarchy as keenly as her subject did. A triumph of feminist biography."
-Stephanie Gorton
