Christine Stansell Explained

Christine Stansell (born 1949) is an American historian in women's and gender history; antebellum US social and political history; American cultural history; history of human rights; and post-catastrophic societies. She received her PhD from Yale University in 1979. She recently retired from teaching history at the University of Chicago, where she had lectured since 2007.^[1]

Stansell's books have received mostly positive reviews.^[2]

Bibliography

• Book: Stansell . Christine . Barr Snitow . Ann . Thompson . Sharon . Powers of desire: the politics of sexuality . registration . Monthly Review Press . New York . 1983 . 9780853456100 .
• Book: Stansell, Christine . City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860 . University of Illinois Press . Urbana . 1987 . 9780394515342 . registration .
• Book: Stansell, Christine . American moderns: Bohemian New York and the creation of a new century . Princeton University Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 2010 . 9780691142838 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christine Stansell - Department of History - The University of Chicago. uchicago.edu. 26 January 2017.
2. Web site: THREE CHEERS FOR THE BOWERY GIRL. 30 November 1986. The New York Times. 26 January 2017.