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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

2008-09-23 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-09-23
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Book Synopsis Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This book was released on 2008-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

2008-09 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-09
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Book Synopsis Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This book was released on 2008-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines three key works by women--the fifteenth-century "Book of the City of Ladies" by Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's memoirs, and Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," to explore the making of history from a woman's perspective.

The Slogan

2015-03-03 History
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Release : 2015-03-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Slogan by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book The Slogan written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This book was released on 2015-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection from the admired history Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, the story of how one of feminism’s most popular slogans came to life. In the opening paragraph of an obscure 1976 scholarly article investigating the prim and proper women celebrated in Puritan funeral sermons, Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich penned the phrase, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” Since then, Ulrich’s slogan has been put on bumper stickers, T-shirts, and tote bags, in greeting cards and political speeches, entering the cultural consciousness in all sorts of unexpected ways. In “The Slogan,” Ulrich gives a brief history of her much-quoted words, and sketches out a primer on feminism today and the way it continues to make history. An eBook short.

A House Full of Females

2017-01-10 Religion
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Release : 2017-01-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A House Full of Females by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book A House Full of Females written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. This book was released on 2017-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.

Miss Behave

2017-06-06 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-06-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Miss Behave by : Malebo Sephodi

Download or read book Miss Behave written by Malebo Sephodi. This book was released on 2017-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quote, ‘well-behaved women seldom make history’, Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of everyone else having a say on who and what she should be. Appropriating this quote, Malebo boldly renounces societal expectations placed on her as a black woman and shares her journey towards misbehavior. According to Malebo, it is the norm for a black woman to live in a society that prescribes what it means to be a well-behaved woman. Acting like this prescribed woman equals good behavior. But what happens when a black woman decides to live her own life and becomes her own form of who she wants to be? She is often seen as misbehaving. Miss-Behave challenges society’s deep-seated beliefs about what it means to be an obedient woman. In this book, Malebo tracks her journey on a path towards achieving total autonomy and self-determinism. Miss-Behave will challenge, rattle and occasionally cause you to scream ‘yassss, yassss, yassss’ at various intervals.

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