History at the University of Notre Dame where her research and teaching interests include gender studies, women’s history, the history of sexuality, and interdisciplinary studies of sexuality and morality. She is the author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, part of the “Women in Culture and Society” series and is currently writing a history of early public advocacy of contraception in Great Britain and the United States. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University.