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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 Graf von Benjamin Rumford

by Eliza Burt Gamble

by Various Authors

by George Edmund Haynes

by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

by M. Rigoberto (Manuel Rigoberto) Paredes

by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

by Henry A. Atkinson

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Sir Arthur Keith

by Gilbert Thomas Stephenson

by Florence Farr

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

by Various Authors

by Howard H. Quint

by Jos. Loopuit

by Émile Zola

by Gustave Le Bon

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by William J. (William Josephus) Robinson

by Sigmund Freud

by Arthur H. Smith

by Ch. (Charles) Letourneau

by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

by Auguste Comte

by Auguste Comte

by Brooks Adams

by Mary Higgs

by Various Authors

by A. A. (Agnes Amy) Brooke, Margaret Whitley

by C. Hélène Barker

by Georg Karl Cornelius Gerland

by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

by Fullerton L. (Fullerton Leonard) Waldo

by Various Authors

by Archibald Henry Grimké

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Horace Fletcher

by Havelock Ellis

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Henry Mayhew

by Agustín Alvarez

by Albert Moll

by Everett Dean Martin

by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

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

by Virginia Penny

by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by Scott Nearing

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by John Wilson

by William Harbutt Dawson

by William Montgomery Brown

by William Benjamin Smith

by Sir Edward Abbott Parry

by George R. (George Robert) Sims

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

by James Owen Dorsey

by James Crabb

by Philip Gibbs

by Jasper W. Rogers

by Teixeira Bastos

by William Aikman

by Charles C. (Charles Chauveau) Cook

by Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman

by John L. Love

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Francesco Saverio Nitti

by Arvid Järnefelt

by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis, J. L. (James Lawrence) Nichols

by Maud Churton Braby

by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

by William W. Sanger

by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

by Various Authors

by J. Ellis Barker

by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

by Samuel Henry Prince

by Enrico Ferri

by Archibald Henry Grimké, John Wesley Cromwell, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

by Various Authors

by Julian Huxley

by Timothy Thomas Fortune

by Walther Rathenau

by Marion Foster Washburne

by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

by John Palmer Gavit