About the Author: Lois W. Banner was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1939. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has taught at Rutgers University, Princeton University, the University of Scranton, the University of Maryland, and George Washington University, and she has been a fellow of both the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and the Rockefeller Foundation. Currently she is professor, Department of History and Gender Studies Program, at the University of Southern California. She is the co-editor with Mary S. Hartman of Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women (1974) and the author of Women in Modern America: A Brief History (1974), Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights (1979), American Beauty (1983, 1984, 2006), In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality: A History (1992, 1993), Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women (1998, 2000), Reading Benedict/ Reading Mead: Feminism, Race, and Imperial Visions (ed. with Dolores Janiewski) (2004), and Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle (2003, 2004). She is also the author of numerous articles.