Rereading Sex (2002), explored sexual representations and the campaign to censor them that led to the landmark Comstock Law of 1873 that barred obscene materials, contraceptive information and devices, and abortion advertisements from the US mails. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College and feminist, 1857-1935, appeared in 1984. Campus Life (1987) looked at the history of undergraduate cultures from the 18th century to the present, with attention to college men (and later, women), outsiders, and rebels. Alma Mater (1984) probed the ways in which founders of the Seven Sister Colleges expressed their hopes and fears about women offered the liberal arts in the colleges' buildings and landscapes the book explored, as well, the lives of female collegians and their female professors as lived within college gates. A series of articles on zoological gardens looked at the changing conceptions of wild animals in relation to humans as expressed in the manner in which the zoo animals were exhibited. Culture and the City (1974) examined the cultural institutions of Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural historian of the U.S., her research ranges over a number of areas, including cultural philanthropy, women, higher education, sexuality, sexual representation, censorship, understandings of mental health and illness, intimate life, and tourism. from Wellesley College in 1963 and her Ph.D. She was born and educated in Shreveport, Louisiana, graduating from C. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942) is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.
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