Linda Kaufman Kerber (born January 23, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York)[1] is an American feminist, a political and intellectual historian, and educator who specializes in the history and development of the democratic mind in America, and the history of women in America.

[2] Kerber joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1971, and is currently the May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences, and also lecturer in the College of Law.

Kerber published her first book, Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America, in 1970.

In 1998, Kerber published No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship, a political history of women and the law that spans the history of the United States from the early Republic to the late twentieth century.

[9] Kerber serves on the international advisory board of the feminist academic journal Signs.