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.