Christine Stansell (born 1949) is an American historian in women's and gender history; antebellum US social and political history; American cultural history; history of human rights; and post-catastrophic societies. She received her PhD from Yale University in 1979. She recently retired from teaching history at the University of Chicago, where she had lectured since 2007.^[1]

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Stansell's books have received mostly positive reviews.^[2]

• Stansell, Christine; Barr Snitow, Ann; Thompson, Sharon, eds. (1983). Powers of desire: the politics of sexuality. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 9780853456100.
• Stansell, Christine (1987). City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780394515342.
• Stansell, Christine (2010). American moderns: Bohemian New York and the creation of a new century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691142838.