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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 William Ralph Inge

by Auguste Comte

by Enrico Ferri

by Harriet Martineau

by Geoffrey Mortimer

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

by Hannah Lynch

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

by American Academy of Political and Social Science

by Rudolf Steiner

by Volter Kilpi

by Stanton Coit

by Various Authors

by Antero de Quental

by Various Authors

by Walter Lippmann

by John Spargo

by Edward Westermarck

by Edgar Thurston

by Havelock Ellis

by Armin Hajman Koller

by Samuel Peter Orth

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Thorstein Veblen

by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

by Thomas Webster

by Arabella Kenealy

by active 3rd century Shao Liu

by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by Lillian William Betts

by Helen Campbell

by Francisco del Valle Atiles

by Daniel Defoe

by Hubert H. Harrison

by Georges Palante

by Jack London

by Virginia Treves

by William H. (WIlliam Harvey) Allen

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by Fay-Cooper Cole

by Margaret Sanger

by August Bebel

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Edward Alsworth Ross

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

by Mary Ware Dennett

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

by Charles Knowlton

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by George Smith

by George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

by Various Authors

by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

by Sidney Lewis Gulick

by Helen Campbell

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by L. M. (Lewis Marshall) Hagood

by Scott Nearing

by Frances Blascoer

by Joseph McCabe

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Emile Pouget

by James Leslie Allan Kayll

by Will Durant

by Maud Churton Braby

by Nels Anderson

by Thorstein Veblen

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

by Edwin Gifford Lamb

by William Douglas Morrison

by William J. (William James) Ghent

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Hutchins Hapgood

by James Greenwood

by Ellen Key

by J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson

by Mary Wood-Allen

by Thomas Holmes

by Paul Vehling

by Various Authors

by D. R. (David Robert) Mace, Vera Mace

by Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by António Cândido

by Sidney Lewis Gulick

by George Fitzhugh

by Olive Schreiner

by Winfield Scott Hall

by Rheta Childe Dorr

by Earl Barnes