Documentarian Nicole Newnham (‘Crip Camp’) delves into the fascinating life of feminist sexologist Shere Hite, with Dakota Johnson lending her voice for readings from Hite's writings. By Leslie ...

When Shere Hite published her book “The Hite Report” in 1976, it disrupted a largely conservative status quo that prevented discussions of sexuality, particularly women’s experiences, from being aired ...

Nicole Newnham’s documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite (now streaming on Hulu) aims to introduce an almost-forgotten figure of the women’s movement to a new generation. In 1976, Shere ...

In “The Disappearance of Shere Hite,” former Knopf editor in chief Robert Gottlieb recalls publishing “The Hite Report on Male Sexuality” in 1981. When he remembers reading some of the thousands of ...

"This is going to lead to real changes in sex between men and women." "Is there any danger in that...?" Yes indeed there is... IFC Films has revealed the first official trailer for an outstanding ...

Portrait of U.S. author and sociologist Shere Hite taken in 1987. (AP Photo) EXCLUSIVE: NBC News Studios has enlisted Nicole Newnham, co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, to helm ...

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films and Sapan Studios today announced they have acquired North American rights to The Disappearance of Shere Hite, a feature documentary on the famed sex researcher whose pioneering ...

A new documentary about the pioneering sex researcher Shere Hite points to the barriers that women face when writing candidly about intimacy and power. Jokes aside, that takeaway wasn’t totally true ...

It shouldn’t be surprising by now that history is full of groundbreaking women whose accomplishments are overlooked and whose names get buried. Sex researcher Shere Hite’s near-Stalinist erasure from ...

Still one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976, The Hite Report offered a groundbreaking look at women’s sexual desires through anonymous survey responses. Despite its ...

Fired up by debates within the women’s movement, Hite decided more research was needed when it came to the female orgasm. She devised and sent out an idiosyncratic, 58-question survey, to which over ...