Sylvia D Hoffert

Biographic Data

ID253722
NAMESylvia D Hoffert
GIVEN NAMESSylvia D
FAMILY NAMEHoffert
SIGNATUREHOFFERT S D
AFFILIATIONSMissouri State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX3

  • Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States

    Sylvia D Hoffert, D HoffertARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    Journal Article Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States Get access Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States. By Kirsten Marie Delegard. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 313 pp. $65.00.) Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert Chapel Hill, North Carolina [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…

  • Private Secretaries in Early-Twentieth-Century America

    Sylvia D HoffertARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2010

    Based on legal documents, letters, and memoirs, this article describes the lives of private secretaries who often served as personal companions and the social context in which they worked, specifically focusing on the women who Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, a New York society matron and woman's rights advocate, employed in that capacity from 1916 to 1933. It examines the nature of their employment, the emotional and social tensions that plagued …

  • A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary A. Livermore

    Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul have long been considered the “Queen Bees” of the suffrage movement. But their prominence and success depended on the hard work of a second tier of feminists, all of whom dedicated a portion of their lives to promoting the advancement of women. Mary A. Livermore was a member of this second group. Livermore was born in 1820. Her father was a laborer who…

  • Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Bonnie S AndersonARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830–1860. By Bonnie S. Anderson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-512623-8.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1490–1491, …

  • The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Carol Kolmerten et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose. By Carol A. Kolmerten. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. xxx, 300 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-0528-5.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1775–1776, https://doi.org/10.2307/25676…

  • Gender and Vigilantism on the Minnesota Frontier: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the U. S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862

    Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1998

    Jane Grey Swisshelm arrived in Minnesota in 1857 with a benevolent attitude toward the Native inhabitants of the state. The U. S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862 led her to advocate their removal or extermination. This article explores the ways in which gender influenced her change of heart

  • Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Susan E Marshall et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. By Susan E. Marshall. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xii, 347 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-299-15460-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-299-15464-5) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…

  • Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Suzanne M MarilleyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1997Cited by: 5

    In demanding equal rights and the vote for women, woman suffragists introduced liberal feminist dissent into an emerging national movement against absolute power in the forms of patriarchy, church administrations, slavery, and false dogmas. In their struggle, these women developed three types of liberal arguments, each predominant during a different phase of the movement. The feminism of equal rights, which called for freedom through equality, em…

  • Jane Grey Swisshelm and the Negotiation of Gender Roles on the Minnesota Frontier

    Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEFrontiers A Journal of Women…1997

    L'A. retrace la carriere militante de Jane Grey Swisshelm, une activiste feministe installee a St. Cloud une ville situee sur la frontiere americaine des annees 1850 dans l'Etat du Minnesota. Il souligne que celle-ci s'est efforcee de remettre en cause la conception des roles sexuels. Il evoque la situation des femmes dans cette region. Il presente un certain nombre d'elements concernant la vie de J. G. Swisshelm. Il souligne que celle-ci est a l…

  • When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America

    Christine Bolt, Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America. By Sylvia D. Hoffert. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xii, 153 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-25332880-2.) Get access Christine Bolt Christine Bolt Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1403, https://doi.…

  • When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement in Antebellum America

    Nancy Isenberg, Nancy G Isenberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996

  • Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870-1920

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Charlotte G BorstARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

  • Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Molly Ladd-Taylor et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1995Cited by: 1

  • Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760-1860

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Lamar Riley MurphyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1991

    Going to see the is a familiar ritual to contemporary Americans, who rely on physicians for diagnosis, treatment and preventive advice. 200 years ago, however, most citizens trusted themselves or lay healers rather than physicians to manage even serious illness. This survey of a disparate body of advice literature uncovers surprising areas of consensus about the structure of the doctor-patient relationship. Between 1760 and 1860 health publicists…

  • Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Terri L PremoARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1783–1853. By Terri L. Premo. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xiv + 199 pp. $24.95.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078294 Published: 01 M…

  • Childbearing on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier, 1830-1900

    Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1991

    Childbearing on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier, 1830–1900 Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert assistant professor of history Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, August 1991, Pages 272–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/969749 Published: 01 August 1991

  • The Emergence of Private Life: Political-Economic Background and Symbolic Meanings

    Janet Salaff, Janet W Salaff et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860

    Daniel Blake Smith, Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800–1860. By Sylvia D. Hoffert. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xvi + 229 pp. $24.95.) Get access Daniel Blake Smith Daniel Blake Smith University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 292–293, https://doi.org/10…

  • Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860

    Rima D Apple, Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1990

  • Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860

    Judy Barrett Litoff, Sylvia D HoffertARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1989

  • Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880-1960

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Leonard GordonREVIEWJournal of American History1989Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880–1960. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Viking, 1988. xv + 383 pp. $24.95.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 270, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908424 Published: 01 June 19…

  • Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890-1950

    Sylvia D Hoffert, Rima D AppleARTICLEJournal of American History1989Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding, 1890–1930. By Rima D. Apple. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. XV + 261 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $16.25.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908…

  • The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction

    Sylvia D HoffertREVIEWJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. By Emily Martin. (Boston: Beacon, 1987. xiii + 276 pp. $21.95.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert St. Louis Country Day School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889681 Published: 01 June 1988

  • Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950

    Sylvia D HoffertREVIEWJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750 to 1950. By Judith Walzer Leavitt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xi + 284 pp. $21.95.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert St. Louis Country Day School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 145–146, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908517 Published: 01 June 1987

  • A Very Peculiar Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Infant Death in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1860

    Open AccessSylvia D HoffertARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1987Cited by: 3

    ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE WAS that, in places such as New York City, as many as one-quarter of all children born in a single year were expected to die before their first birthday. Middleand upperclass parents living in the towns and cities of New England and the Middle Atlantic states were fairly realistic about their chances of losing a child in infancy.2 Of his first child born in 1803, John Pierce wrote to…