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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 Sir Arthur Keith

by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

by Fullerton L. (Fullerton Leonard) Waldo

by Thomas Nelson Page

by William Aikman

by Archibald Henry Grimké

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

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Francesco Saverio Nitti

by Gustave Le Bon

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by António Cândido

by Everett Dean Martin

by August Bebel

by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

by Armin Hajman Koller

by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

by Scott Nearing

by William Benjamin Smith

by Graf von Benjamin Rumford

by Joseph Kennedy

by Mary Higgs

by Various Authors

by M. Rigoberto (Manuel Rigoberto) Paredes

by James Crabb

by Andrew Mearns, William C. Preston

by L. M. (Lewis Marshall) Hagood

by Charles C. (Charles Chauveau) Cook

by Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman

by Various Authors

by Arvid Järnefelt

by Henry Mayhew

by Nels Anderson

by R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) Tobias, Mary Marcy

by Marion Foster Washburne

by Sir Edward Abbott Parry

by Richard Roberts

by James Owen Dorsey

by B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji) Ambedkar

by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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

by Various Authors

by Philip Gibbs

by Jasper W. Rogers

by J. Saunders (Jay Saunders) Redding

by Teixeira Bastos

by Boris Reinstein

by John L. Love

by Various Authors

by Maud Churton Braby

by Albert Moll

by Ch. (Charles) Letourneau

by Various Authors

by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

by Samuel Henry Prince

by Enrico Ferri

by Walter Rauschenbusch

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Winfield Scott Hall

by Timothy Thomas Fortune

by Walther Rathenau

by Josiah Flynt

by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

by Sidney Lewis Gulick

by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

by Georg Karl Cornelius Gerland

by Various Authors

by Jesse Edward Moorland

by Ruth Cranston

by Various Authors

by Henry Churchill King

by Edwin Lawrence Godkin

by Addie Chisholm

by Henry Faudel

by Various Authors

by Stewart Culin

by Cesare Lombroso

by Horace Fletcher

by Havelock Ellis

by Walter Lippmann

by Sigmund Freud

by Jean-Marie Guyau

by George Fitzhugh

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Julian Huxley

by Edwin Gifford Lamb