<![CDATA[Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History]]>

false <![CDATA[Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History]]> 473815 2 “They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Today those words appear almost everywhere—on T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, plaques, greeting cards, and more. But what do they really mean? In this engrossing volume, Laurel Ulrich goes far beyond the slogan she inadvertently created and explores what it means to make history. Her volume ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which women achieved power and influence, to the writings of nineteenth-century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and twentieth-century novelist Virginia Woolf. Ulrich updates de Pizan’s Amazons with stories about women warriors from other times and places. She contrasts Woolf’s imagined story about Shakespeare’s sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare’s contemporaries. She turns Stanton’s encounter with a runaway slave upside down, asking how the story would change if the slave rather than the white suffragist were at the center. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren’t trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s created a generation of historians who by challenging traditional accounts of both men’s and women’s histories stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History celebrates a renaissance in history inspired by amateurs, activists, and professional historians. It is a tribute to history and to those who make it. 2885214 4 9 2007 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History total:296|5:40|4:124|3:104|2:25|1:3| 296 1061 811 116 4 3 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 09 11:06:33 -0800 2007 Sat May 10 19:00:09 -0700 2008
Confronting these shifting meanings, some people wonder whether history has any value at all. At any given moment it is hard to know whom to believe and what to trust. That's why details matter. Details ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 25 20:26:32 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 26 22:30:15 -0700 2008
Reading this: Like sitting in Ulrich’s Harvard semin...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 11 21:42:37 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 07 06:10:17 -0800 2008 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History covers far too much ground in few too pages. The text attempts to relates to the thesis--that well-behaved women seldom make history--but it often comes across as seeming annecdotal and trite at times. The reader learns a little about the Amazons, a little abou...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 07:11:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 07:39:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 05:55:17 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 00:55:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 20 11:07:41 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:17:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:35:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:15:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 19:44:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 06:24:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 13:10:49 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 13:14:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 11:51:09 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 10 04:48:49 -0700 2009
"At any given moment it is hard to know whom to believe or what to trust. That's why details matter...Details keep us from falling into the twin snares of 'victim history' and 'hero history.' Details let us out of boxes created by slogans."]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:53:12 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:53:12 -0800 2009 Unlike her previous works, which focused on a single location, era, or life, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's fifth work of nonfiction takes a broad view of women's history. Though critics felt that her associations and organizing devices were clever, a few questioned some of the connections between stories...

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After reading this, I wonder why this information is not part of what every person studies at school. Sinc...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 07:39:50 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 17 09:04:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=473815