Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;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.
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."nbsp; Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs.nbsp; Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written.nbsp; 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.nbsp; Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did.nbsp; And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history.
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431. Livre de la cité des dames.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Eighty years and more.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Room of one's own.
Women -- History.
Women in literature.
Feminism.
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Ulr | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/8/2024) |
SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Ulr | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |