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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 Henry Gannett

by Jos. Loopuit

by John P. (John Peter) Jones

by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield

by Edward Westermarck

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

by Franz Oppenheimer

by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

by Robert O. Harland

by Various Authors

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

by Henry N. (Henry Newell) Guernsey

by Antonio Labriola

by Henry Herbert Goddard

by George Wharton James

by Various Authors

by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

by William E. (William Erskine) Kellicott

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by Jean Finot

by Charles Dudley Warner

by James Peter Warbasse

by W. S. (William Sanders) Scarborough

by Dorothy Josephine Collier

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Cornelia Sorabji

by Minna Wettstein-Adelt

by Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson, Charlotte Everett Hopkins

by Various Authors

by George Elliott Howard

by Various Authors

by Y. (Yrjö) Hirn

by George B. Louis (George Byron Louis) Arner

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by John Dutton Wright

by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by Pennsylvania Prison Society

by Various Authors

by Mrs. (Mary) Bayly

by Various Authors

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

by Various Authors

by Reginald A. (Reginald Arthur) Bray

by Rudolf Diesel

by Yakov Aleksandrovich Novikov

by James H. N. Waring

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Upton Sinclair

by Emory S. (Emory Stephen) Bogardus

by Henry T. Finck

by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

by James Devon

by Charles Kingsley

by Lee J. (Lee Joseph) Levinger

by Various Authors

by Alexander Black

by Robert Harry Lowie

by Various Authors

by Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Chautauqua Institution

by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Collet

by Arthur Mee

by James Hayden Tufts

by Guillaume de Greef

by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

by Leopold Loewenfeld

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

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

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by János Varga

by J. C. (John Clay) Coleman

by John C. Cobden
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by United States. Bureau of the Census

by Argyris Eftaliotis

by Henry Ward Beecher

by Various Authors

by Gabriel Pierre Deville

by Archibald Henry Grimké

by Anna Maria Mozzoni

by Anonymous

by John Owen

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Various Authors

by Jr. (John Davison) John D. Rockefeller

by Suzanne La Follette

by Charles Dudley Warner

by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

by Frank Cuttriss

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons