Corinne T. Field is a lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History and the Women, Gender, Sexuality Program at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America. Her next book, tentatively titled Minors to Men: Maturation, Gender, and Race in the Early American Republic, will investigate the political significance of manhood as a stage of life.