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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 Thomas Webster

by Arabella Kenealy

by Helen Campbell

by Anonymous

by Helen Campbell

by Jack London

by Various Authors

by Edgar Thurston

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Hugo Münsterberg

by Maud Churton Braby

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Thorstein Veblen

by Thorstein Veblen

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

by Various Authors

by Auguste Comte

by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

by Hutchins Hapgood

by James Greenwood

by active 3rd century Shao Liu

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

by Hannah Lynch

by Lillian William Betts

by Mary Wood-Allen

by Volter Kilpi

by Daniel Defoe

by Hubert H. Harrison

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by Frances Blascoer

by Virginia Treves

by Emma Goldman

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by August Bebel

by Sidney Lewis Gulick

by Edward Alsworth Ross

by George Smith

by Olive Schreiner

by William Douglas Morrison

by William J. (William James) Ghent

by Various Authors

by Ellen Key

by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

by Gilbert Thomas Stephenson

by Stanton Coit

by Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman

by Emile Pouget

by William J. (William Josephus) Robinson

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

by Fay-Cooper Cole

by William McDougall

by Melvin M. (Melvin Moses) Knight, Phyllis Blanchard, Iva Lowther Peters

by Mary Ware Dennett

by Auguste Comte

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, Booker T. Washington

by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by Émile Durkheim

by Florence Farr

by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

by Various Authors

by Thomas Holmes

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Paul Vehling

by Howard H. Quint

by Various Authors

by Jos. Loopuit

by Émile Zola

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Joseph McCabe

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by R. von (Richard) Krafft-Ebing

by James Leslie Allan Kayll

by Margaret Sanger

by Mrs. John Van Vorst, Marie Van Vorst

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Rheta Childe Dorr

by John Wilson

by Earl Barnes

by Auguste Comte

by Elizabeth Blackwell

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Eliza Burt Gamble

by George Edmund Haynes

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Brooks Adams

by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

by C. Hélène Barker

by J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson

by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick