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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 Charles Josiah Galpin

by Gustave Le Bon

by Albert Schweitzer

by Alfred Buchanan

by Franz Boas

by Arno Dosch-Fleurot, Hector J. Boon

by Lauri Perälä

by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

by Charles Horton Cooley

by Walter Lippmann

by Oswald Spengler

by James Truslow Adams

by Duff Macdonald

by Norman Douglas

by E. E. (Enoch Edwin) Byrum

by Wallace Thurman

by Lajos Nagy

by C. A. (Cecil Alec) Mace

by Walter Lippmann

by Charles Horton Cooley

by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

by Gustave Le Bon

by Octavia Hill

by Gustave Le Bon

by Barbara H. (Barbara Henry) Farquhar

by Gustave Le Bon

by Lucy Maynard Salmon

by E. E. (Edmund Edward) Fournier d'Albe

by Émile Faguet

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Julie-Victoire Daubié

by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

by Edward Westermarck
by Paul Otlet

by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

by Kaapo Murros

by Knut Leonard Tallqvist

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Clarence Darrow

by Clementina Black

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors