Rosa Campbell Archives - Public Seminar

An excerpt from The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report

July 1, 2026 • by Rosa Campbell

What do Shere’s correspondents mean when they write, over and over, ‘I feel normal’? The ‘normal’ is a powerful idea. It can seem like it has always been with us, like perhaps there has always been a broad, overarching scheme of normality to compare ourselves to and wonder how we ...

Feminism

Re-Revolutionizing the Female Orgasm

A conversation with Rosa Campbell on Shere Hite’s fight for feminist sexuality

July 1, 2026 • by Rosa Campbell and Rachel Potter

Shere Hite’s goal was to bring feminism to the women in the suburbs she grew up in. To her conservative Christian grandmother who raised her; to her mother who fell pregnant with Hite as a teenager and was forced out of school; and to herself—an aspiring feminist academic who, without ...