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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 W. (Wilfred) Trotter

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

by Friedrich Engels

by Lillian D. Wald

by Henry Pratt Fairchild

by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

by John Ruskin

by Booker T. Washington, Robert Ezra Park

by James Boyd Kennedy

by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff

by Henri Grégoire

by Max Simon Nordau

by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

by William R. (William Rufus) Scott

by Margaret Sanger

by Charles Maurice Davies

by Margaret Sanger

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

by William Graham Sumner

by Mary Scharlieb, Frederick Arthur Sibly

by Samuel Peter Orth

by James Dabney McCabe

by Frederick Douglass

by Ettie Annie Rout

by Jane Hume Clapperton

by Rudolf Steiner

by Valentí Almirall

by Alice Mabel Bacon

by Auguste Comte

by Charles Horton Cooley

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

by Lydia Maria Child

by Hilaire Belloc

by Edwin A. Brown

by Charles A. (Charles Abram) Ellwood

by W. A. (William Allan) Chapple

by R. M. (Ronald Macmillan) Algie

by Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer, Fritz Lenz

by Jane Addams

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by Clara Barton

by Dr. (John) Doran

by Jane Addams

by James George Frazer

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by Various Authors

by Luigi Barzini

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Károly Eötvös

by Émile Durkheim

by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

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

by Herbert David Croly

by Georges Clemenceau

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

by William Ralph Inge

by Ernst Abbe

by Geoffrey Mortimer

by Coningsby Dawson

by Sir Arthur Helps

by Elizabeth McCracken

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

by William Withington

by Rudolf Steiner

by Georges Montorgueil

by Alice S. (Alice Squires) Cheyney

by Antero de Quental

by Edward Westermarck

by Havelock Ellis

by James W. Donovan

by Gerald Stanley Lee

by William Isaac Thomas

by Jane Addams

by Paul Lafargue

by American Academy of Political and Social Science

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

by Francisco del Valle Atiles

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Georges Palante

by Various Authors

by John Spargo

by Jack London

by Henry Mayhew

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Charles Knowlton

by Samuel Peter Orth

by Enrico Ferri

by Harriet Martineau

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Walter Besant