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Step into a world where society tries to script love, marriage, gender, and desire—and every rule is up for inspection. This bookshelf explores the intimate crossroads of biology, morality, family life, and social control, revealing how generations tried to explain what it means to become a man, a woman, a spouse, a parent. Provocative, unsettling, and deeply revealing, these works open a window onto the anxieties and ambitions that shaped private life in public terms.

by Mary Scharlieb, Frederick Arthur Sibly

by Edwin A. Brown

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Sir Arthur Helps

by Harriet Martineau

by Various Authors

by Georg Simmel

by Jane Addams

by Hinton Rowan Helper

by New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents

by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

by Mary Wood-Allen

by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Lothrop Stoddard

by Max Simon Nordau

by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

by Lillian D. Wald

by Paul Lafargue

by James Boyd Kennedy

by Elizabeth Blackwell

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

by Émile Durkheim

by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

by William Graham Sumner

by Jack London

by Paul Popenoe, Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

by Auguste Comte

by William R. (William Rufus) Scott

by Margaret Sanger

by Henry Pratt Fairchild

by John Ruskin

by Émile Durkheim

by Various Authors

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

by Alice Mabel Bacon

by Charles Horton Cooley

by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

by Ettie Annie Rout

by W. A. (William Allan) Chapple

by Jane Hume Clapperton

by Károly Eötvös

by Valentí Almirall

by James W. Donovan

by Gerald Stanley Lee

by Lydia Maria Child

by Clara Barton

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Samuel Peter Orth

by Margaret Sanger

by James Dabney McCabe

by Frederick Douglass

by Ernst Abbe

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by R. M. (Ronald Macmillan) Algie

by Rudolf Steiner

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Paul Bekker, Goetz A. (Goetz Antony) Briefs, Max Scheler, Arnold Sommerfeld

by Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood

by Coningsby Dawson

by S. A. (Samuel Augustus) Barnett, Mrs. S. A. Barnett

by Elizabeth McCracken

by Luigi Barzini

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by William McDougall

by Hugo Münsterberg

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Georges Clemenceau

by Elizabeth Blackwell

by James George Frazer

by Joseph Kennedy

by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand, D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan

by Various Authors

by Alice S. (Alice Squires) Cheyney

by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

by Jane Addams

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by Herbert David Croly

by William Isaac Thomas

by Jane Addams

by Dr. (John) Doran

by Jane Addams

by Walter Besant

by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

by William Withington

by Conn. Anti-slavery Society of Meriden, Philo Pratt, Isaac I. Tibbals, Walter Webb

by Georges Montorgueil

by Anonymous

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Emma Goldman

by Henry Mayhew

by August Bebel

by Mrs. John Van Vorst, Marie Van Vorst