Bibliograph

Well-behaved women seldom make history, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Well-behaved women seldom make history, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-269) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Well-behaved women seldom make history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

212856233

Responsibility statement

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Summary

In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. She ranges from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, to the twentieth century's Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own. Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did. And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history

Table Of Contents

The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeare's daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves -- Afterword: Making history

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