Glenna Matthews is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Urban and
Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley. She is the author
of Just a Housewife:The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America (Oxford, 1987)
and The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place, 1630-1970
(Oxford, 1992). The author of five books in all and numerous articles,
Matthews has also curated an exhibit on the history of San Francisco for
the San Francisco Public Library, and served as the principal
consultant for an award-winning documentary about the historian Angie Debo.