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Dr. Hoffert specializes in the history of women
and gender and has written extensively about women in
nineteenth-century America. She is the author of
Private Matters: American Attitudes Toward Childbearing
and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860 (1989)
When Hen's Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in
Antebellum America (1995), A History of Gender in
America (2003), and Jane Grey Swisshem: An
Unconventional Life (2004). Her articles have
appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Western
Historical Quarterly, Frontiers, Journalism
Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Southern
Studies.
Her current research concerns the political
philanthropy of Alva Vonderbilt Belmont and its influence on
the National Women's Party in particular and the women's
rights movement in general.
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