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SYLVIA D. HOFFERT is Professor Emerita of Women’s History at Texas A&M University and author of Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800–1860 (1989); When Hens Crow: The Woman’s Rights Movement in Antebellum America (IUP, 1995); A History of Gender in America (2003); and Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life (2004). She has also published articles in the Journal of Women’s History, Labor, the Western Historical Quarterly, Frontiers, Journalism Quarterly, and the American Quarterly. ...

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