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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 Dorothy Josephine Collier

by Rafael Shaw

by Various Authors

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Cornelia Sorabji

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Various Authors

by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield

by Emory S. (Emory Stephen) Bogardus

by Henry T. Finck

by Various Authors

by James Devon

by Charles Kingsley

by Robert Harry Lowie

by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by Various Authors

by S. A. (Samuel Augustus) Barnett, Mrs. S. A. Barnett

by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

by Leopold Loewenfeld

by Eduardo C. N. (Eduardo Clemente Nunes) Pereira

by J. C. (John Clay) Coleman

by Henry Gannett

by Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson, Charlotte Everett Hopkins

by Upton Sinclair

by Various Authors

by Stephen Leacock

by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

by Lee J. (Lee Joseph) Levinger

by Alexander Black

by John Dutton Wright

by Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Chautauqua Institution

by Various Authors

by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Collet

by Arthur Mee

by Louise Stevens Bryant

by James Hayden Tufts

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by W. S. (William Sanders) Scarborough

by Guillaume de Greef

by Various Authors

by Walter A. (Walter Augustus) Wyckoff

by Various Authors

by Rudolf Diesel

by Various Authors

by János Varga

by James H. N. Waring

by R. A. (Reinert August) Jernberg

by Various Authors

by Wilhelm Max Wundt

by Sivachandra Vasu

by Virginia Penny

by Y. (Yrjö) Hirn

by United States. Bureau of the Census

by Argyris Eftaliotis

by Suzanne La Follette

by Various Authors

by William E. (William Erskine) Kellicott

by Henry Ward Beecher

by Mrs. Pember Reeves

by Gabriel Pierre Deville

by Mrs. (Mary) Bayly

by Archibald Henry Grimké

by Various Authors

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Anna Maria Mozzoni

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Enrico Ferri

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by John C. Cobden

by Bronislaw Malinowski

by Helen Marot

by Elizabeth Cooper

by Jr. (John Davison) John D. Rockefeller

by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett

by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

by Frank Cuttriss

by Horace Meyer Kallen

by Roscoe Conkling Bruce

by John Owen

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Various Authors

by Napoleone Colajanni

by W. Wynn (William Wynn) Westcott

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Maud Ballington Booth