Her first book, Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1934, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2004, and her second, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty, will be published by Oxford University Press later this year. She loves to teach women's history in addition to courses in the history of sexuality, and finds the Modern U.S. History survey course particularly enjoyable when she can teach it with her husband, who is also an historian. Their eight-year-old son, whether in self-defense or out of genetic inclination, is also a fan of history an...