Joseph Daniel Unwin

Joseph Daniel Unwin
Born	1895
Died	1936
Residence	Peterhouse, Cambridge [1929] Cambridge House, 131 Camberwell Road, SE5 [1933]
Occupation	ethnologist anthropologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1936 deceased elected_AI 1928.04.24

Notes

House Notes

1928.03.27 nominated
death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936

Notes From Elsewhere

Joseph Daniel Unwin MC (1895–1936) was an English ethnologist and social anthropologist at Oxford University and Cambridge University.
In Sex and Culture (1934), Unwin studied 80 primitive tribes and 6 known civilizations through 5,000 years of history and claimed there was a positive correlation between the cultural achievement of a people and the sexual restraint they observe.[1] Aldous Huxley described Sex and Culture as "a work of the highest importance".[2]

According to Unwin, after a nation becomes prosperous it becomes increasingly liberal with regard to sexual morality and as a result loses its cohesion, its impetus and its purpose. The effect, says the author, is irrevocable.[3] Unwin also claimed that legal equality between women and men was a necessary prerequisite to absolute monogamy.[4]

Publications

External Publications

Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour. London: Williams & Norgate ltd., 1933.
Sex and Culture. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
The Scandal of Imprisonment for Debt. London: Simpkin Marshall Limited, 1935.
Sexual Regulations and Cultural Behaviour. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
Sex Compatibility in Marriage. New York: Rensselaer, 1939.
Hopousia: Or, The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society, with and introduction by Aldous Huxley. New York: Oskar Piest, 1940.
Our Economic Problems and Their Solution (An Extract from "Hopousia.") London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1944.