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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 Horton Cooley

by E. E. (Enoch Edwin) Byrum

by Arno Dosch-Fleurot, Hector J. Boon

by Gustave Le Bon

by Gustave Le Bon

by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

by C. A. (Cecil Alec) Mace

by Walter Lippmann

by Lucy Maynard Salmon

by Walter Lippmann

by Albert Schweitzer

by Norman Douglas

by Émile Faguet

by Octavia Hill

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Barbara H. (Barbara Henry) Farquhar

by Julie-Victoire Daubié

by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

by Lajos Nagy

by Charles Horton Cooley

by Oswald Spengler

by Duff Macdonald

by William John Cameron, Henry Ford

by Charles Josiah Galpin

by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

by Gustave Le Bon

by Edward Westermarck

by Knut Leonard Tallqvist

by Margaret Mead

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Clarence Darrow

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

by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

by Wallace Thurman

by Lauri Perälä

by David Ockham

by Kaapo Murros

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Clementina Black
by Paul Otlet