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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 Kate M. Foley

by B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji) Ambedkar

by Upton Sinclair

by Various Authors

by Mary White Ovington

by Ruth Cranston

by Andrew Mearns, William C. Preston

by Josef von Neupauer

by Jean Turner-Zimmermann

by Boris Reinstein

by Henry Faudel

by Arvid Järnefelt

by comte de Arthur Gobineau

by Howard Washington Odum, Guy Benton Johnson

by Walter Rauschenbusch

by Mahatma Gandhi

by Josiah Flynt

by Viscount Bertrand Edward Dawson

by Richard Roberts

by Charles Dudley Warner

by John W. (John William) Graham

by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

by Various Authors

by Florence Elizabeth Barrett

by Jesse Edward Moorland

by Paul L. (Paul Leroy) Vogt

by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

by Thomas Holmes

by Edwin Lawrence Godkin

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

by Sigmund Engel

by J. Saunders (Jay Saunders) Redding

by Addie Chisholm

by Various Authors

by Fred K. Fleagle

by Friedrich Engels

by Cesare Lombroso

by Walter F. (Walter Francis) Willcox

by Karl Marx

by Jean-Marie Guyau

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

by Thames Williamson

by Upton Sinclair

by Hugo Münsterberg

by William Guthrie

by Charles Loring Brace

by Stephen Leacock

by John Spargo

by Benjamin Rush Davenport

by Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge

by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross

by Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho

by Helena M. (Helena Maria) Swanwick

by Henry Churchill King

by Anton Pannekoek

by Elihu Grant

by Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Stewart Culin

by Henry Highland Garnet

by Thomas Beggs

by Gustave Le Bon

by Douwe Kalma

by Emma Goldman

by Hubert H. Harrison

by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

by J. (John) Macgowan

by T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne

by Robert Blatchford

by E. B. (Edith Belle) Lowry

by Various Authors

by S. de Magalhães (Sebastião de Magalhães) Lima

by Sanford Bell

by Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) Wise

by Charles Otis Gill, Gifford Pinchot

by Louis Albert Banks

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

by Julia Ward Howe

by James Bronterre O'Brien

by Charles H. (Charles Halston) Williams

by Jane Addams

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Allan Wilson Cook

by Caroline Louisa Hunt

by Kelly Miller