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Today we are chatting with Sarah Gold McBride, a doctoral student in history at UC Berkeley. Her current research focuses on social and cultural implications of hair in 19th century America.   Links   http://sarahgoldmcbride.com/   Whiskerology: Hair and the Legible Body in Nineteenth-Century America.”   Masculinity and Facial Hair in 19th Century America    UC Berkeley News Center: Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair   Source mentioned: Women's Suffrage: The Reform Against Nature, by Horace Bushnell       Music by Yan Perchuk, courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc.   Follow us on twitter at @thisisberkeley