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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 Harbutt Dawson

by Mahatma Gandhi

by William Guthrie

by Kate M. Foley

by William Montgomery Brown

by Hubert H. Harrison

by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

by Benjamin Rush Davenport

by Various Authors

by Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge

by Charles Dudley Warner

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

by Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) Wise

by Various Authors

by Upton Sinclair

by Louis Albert Banks

by Florence Elizabeth Barrett

by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho

by Mary White Ovington

by Anton Pannekoek

by Elihu Grant

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Thomas Holmes

by Josef von Neupauer

by Sigmund Engel

by Andress Floyd

by Allan Wilson Cook

by Kelly Miller

by Walter F. (Walter Francis) Willcox

by Horacio Carlos Rivarola

by Douwe Kalma

by comte de Arthur Gobineau

by Emma Goldman

by Thames Williamson

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

by Salem Goldworth Bland

by Various Authors

by Charles Nordhoff

by John Spargo

by E. B. (Edith Belle) Lowry

by Various Authors

by S. de Magalhães (Sebastião de Magalhães) Lima

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by John W. (John William) Graham

by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross

by Charles F. G. (Charles Frederick Gurney) Masterman

by Helena M. (Helena Maria) Swanwick

by Various Authors

by John Morley

by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

by Charles H. (Charles Halston) Williams

by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

by Drew Middleton

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Samuel Paynter Wilson

by Karl Marx

by Gustave Le Bon

by Arvid Järnefelt

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

by American Tract Society

by William H. (WIlliam Harvey) Allen

by Will Durant

by William W. Sanger

by James George Frazer

by Harriet Martineau

by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

by Alexander Walker

by Cornelia Stratton Parker

by Henry Mayhew

by J. Ellis Barker

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

by Howard Washington Odum, Guy Benton Johnson

by Upton Sinclair
by Walter Lionel George

by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

by Viscount Bertrand Edward Dawson Dawson

by T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne

by Various Authors

by Robert Blatchford

by William Archer

by Sanford Bell

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Charles Otis Gill, Gifford Pinchot

by Newell Dwight Hillis

by Friedrich von Hellwald

by Henry A. Atkinson

by Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker

by Various Authors

by Rafael M. de (Rafael María) Labra

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Caroline Louisa Hunt

by Friedrich Engels

by Henry Highland Garnet

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons