Gail Bederman is a historian specializing in gender, sexuality, and cultural history in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. from Brown University and is the author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Her current research explores early public advocacy for contraception in Britain and the U.S., with two forthcoming volumes: The Worst Sort of Property and The Very First Reproductive Rights Movement. Her work examines key intellectual and activist figures shaping reproductive rights and gender discourse in the 19th century.