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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 Enrico Ferri

by Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) Hunt

by Napoleone Colajanni

by Bronislaw Malinowski

by W. Wynn (William Wynn) Westcott

by Helen Marot

by Elizabeth Cooper

by Maud Ballington Booth

by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

by Norman Maclean

by Roscoe Conkling Bruce

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Various Authors

by B. L. Hutchins

by Various Authors

by Otto Rothfield

by Various Authors

by H. M. Lytle

by Joanna C. (Joanna Carver) Colcord

by Caroline H. Woods

by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by J. van den Brand

by Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, Neda A. Walpole

by Anna Garlin Spencer

by Various Authors

by Alice Henry

by George Walter Fiske

by Sir Frederick Bateman
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

by Various Authors

by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson

by Various Authors

by Theodore DeBose Bratton

by Consumers' League of New York City

by Richard Arthur

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Mary Ellen Richmond

by Various Authors

by J. W. (James William) Sullivan

by Various Authors

by Felix A. (Felix Aaron) Theilhaber

by Various Authors

by Kristoffer Nyrop

by Sir Alfred Hopkinson

by Benjamin Rotch

by Jukichi Inouye

by Werner Sombart

by Carl Kelsey

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Orishatukeh Faduma

by Antero de Quental

by Sir George Nicholls

by James Jackson Kilpatrick

by Richard C. (Richard Clarke) Cabot

by Horatio M. (Horatio Milo) Pollock

by Thomas P. Bonczar

by Antonio da Costa de Souza de Macedo

by Felix A. (Felix Aaron) Theilhaber

by J. van den Brand

by Ramón J. Espinosa

by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

by Benjamin Waugh

by of Girton College E. M. Leonard

by Consumers' League of New York City

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Sándor Tonelli

by Martha Foote Crow

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by La Reine Helen McKenzie Baker

by James F. (James Ferdinand) Morton

by Louis Sonolet, Paul Bourgette

by Various Authors

by Harry Best

by International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)

by T. (Toyokichi) Iyenaga, Kennosuke Sato

by Magnus Hirschfeld

by Edward Nicholas Clopper

by Willem Adriaan Bonger

by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

by Margaret Mead

by William John Cameron, Henry Ford

by David Ockham

by Séverine

by Sigmund Freud

by Mary Parker Follett

by Grafton Elliot Smith, T. H. (Tom Hatherley) Pear