| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age. By Lawrence J. Nelson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xviii, 323 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1449-5.)

In the spring of 1929, some seven hundred students at the University of Missouri-Columbia received copies of a questionnaire soliciting their opinions on women's financial emancipation, illicit sex, and "trial marriage" for an undergraduate sociology project. After a few students complained, rumors flew regarding the questionnaire's authors and intent. The university president condemned the study as "sewer sociology," while supporters lamented local "Babbitry" (pp. 4, 14). When university officials dismissed and disciplined one undergraduate and several faculty advisers, students, parents, and locals rallied in support and opposition. The American Association of University Professors conducted a hearing into the case's effect on academic freedom, and media across the country weighed in on the incident as new evidence of a national culture war.

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