Educated King's College, University of Cambridge (B.A. and M.A.) and St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford (D.Phil. 1983).

Publications include:

BOOKS

2000 Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race, Routledge, London -- co-edited with Laura Mayhall and Ian Fletcher.

1990 Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

1987 Victorian Feminism 1850-1900 London: Routledge, and Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press. Second Printing: 1994.

1986 The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, antiquarians and archeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ARTICLES

2002 'The White Slave Trade and the British Empire,' Class, Gender and Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions,’ forthcoming Criminal Justice History 17.

2001 'Erotic Geographies: Sex and the Managing of Colonial Space,' forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Geographies, ed. Helena Michie and Ronald Thomas. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

2001 ‘The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution,’ in Marking Times and Territories: Genders in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia, ed. Sonita Sarkar and Esha Niyogi De, forthcoming, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

2001 ‘Public Health, Venereal Disease and Colonial Medicine in the Later Nineteenth Century,’ in Sex, Sin and Suffering. Venereal Disease and European Society Since 1870 ed. Roger Davidson and Lesley A. Hall, London: Routledge. 160-172.

1999 'The Culture of Medicine and the Culture of the Academy,' Radical History Review 74: 184-196.

1999 ''Teaching Medical History: Introduction,' with Judith de Groat, Radical History Review 74: 137-139.

1998 'Modernity, Medicine and Colonialism. The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements,' I 6, no 3: 675-705 (reprinted in Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities, ed. Antoinette Burton. London: Routledge, 1999).

1998 'Battle Colors: Race, Sex and Colonial Soldiery in World War I,' Journal of Women's History 9, no 4: 104-130.

1996 'Rereading the 1890s: Venereal Disease as "Constitutional Crisis" in Britain and British India,' Journal of Asian Studies 55, no.3: 585-612.

1995 Invited response to two articles on Marxism and feminism, Contention 12: 47-52 (reprinted in Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality, ed. Nikki R. Keddie. New York: New York University Press, 1996, 208-213).

1994 '"Walking The Streets In A Way No Decent Woman Should": Women Police in World War One,' Journal of Modern History 66: 34-78.

1994 'Consistent Contradictions: Prostitution and Protective Labour Legislation in Nineteenth-Century England,' Social History 19,no. 1: 17-35

1994 'Venereal Disease, Prostitution and the Politics of Empire: The Case of British India,' Journal of the History of Sexuality 4, no. 4: 579-602.

1993 'Women and Prostitution: Metaphor, Reality, History,' Canadian Journal of History 28, no. 3: 479-494.

1993 '"Rough Usage:" Prostitution, Law, and the Social Historian,' in Rethinking Social History. English Society 1570-1920 And Its Interpretation, ed. Adrian Wilson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 266-292.

1993 'The Multiple Jeopardy of Race, Class and Gender for AIDS Risk Among Women,' with Marie W. Osmond et al, Gender & Society, 7, no. 1: 99-120.

1993 'Public and Private Paradox: Prostitution and the State,' Arena, n.s. 1: 131-144.

1992 with Kathryn G. Wambach et al, 'Substance Abuse Among Women At Risk for HIV Infection,' Journal of Drug Education 22, no. 2: 131-146.

1991 with David Quadagno et al, 'Women at Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus,' Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality 4, no. 3: 97-110.

1990 '"The Humanising Influences of Five O'Clock Tea": Victorian Feminist Periodicals,' Victorian Studies 33: 293-306.

1990: 'Love, Friendship and Feminism in Later Nineteenth-Century England,' Women's Studies International Forum 13, nos. 1/2: 63-78.

1990 with Dianne Harrison et al., 'AIDS Knowledge and Risk Behaviors among Culturally Diverse Women,' AIDS Education and Prevention 3, no 2: 79-89.

1989 '"So Few Prizes And So Many Blanks": Marriage and Feminism in Later Nineteenth-Century England,' Journal of British Studies 28, no. 2: 150-174.

1988 'Perspectives on Feminist Historical Scholarship,' Australian Historical Association Bulletin: 38-41.

1986 'History in the Archives: the Public Record Office and Its Staff, 1838-1886,' English Historical Review 101: 20-41 (centenary issue).