Women in Antebellum Reform (The American History Series) - Softcover

Lori D. Ginzberg is Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States, which was co-winner of the 1991 National Historical Society’s Book Prize in American History. She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century women’s political and intellectual history, including “’Pernicious Heresies’: Women’s Political Identities and Sexual Respectability in the Nineteenth Century,” in Alison Parker and Stephanie Cole, eds., Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, and “’The Hearts of Your Readers will Shudder’: Fanny Wright, Infidelity, and American Freethought,” American Quarterly 46, which won the Constance Rourke prize. In 1995-96 she was a Fulbright senior teaching fellow at the Hebrew university in Jerusalem. Lori Ginzberg lives in Philadelphia.

"The writing is clear and lively and the interpretation engaging and sophisticated. Ginzberg brings a wide array of individuals, events, and movements to life and provides particularly insightful discussions of class and racial differences within antebellum society and antebellum reform."
–Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University