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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

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Biographies GeneralWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1400075270
ISBN13: 9781400075270
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 23 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.06
Language: English

From admired historian--and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans--Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.

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.

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