Abstract

Between 1890 and 1930, the Victorian thought-world that had dominated middle-class morals during the nineteenth century unraveled, as a revolution on manners and morals transformed the sexual landscape of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the ways in which this revolution in thinking about sexuality affected social thought during this period, and how the social sciences---sociology, anthropology and psychology---addressed the changing sexual mores and codes that accompanied the transition to modernity