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Rebecca Davis

Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

Topics of expertise
  • Feminism & Families
  • Fertility, Reproduction & Sexual Health
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
  • Marriage & Divorce

Email: rldavis@udel.edu
Website: www.rebeccaldavis.com

I am the author of the forthcoming book, SEX IN AMERICA (Liveright/WW Norton), a producer of the SEXING HISTORY podcast, and author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (Harvard University Press, 2010). I have also published numerous articles about marriage, religion, and sexuality in American history.

Last Updated: 12/15/25