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Well-behaved women seldom make history / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Publication details: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1400041597
- 9781400041596
- HQ1121 .U517 2007
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Summary: "They didn't ask to be remembered," historian 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 on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich 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. She contrasts Woolf's imagined story about Shakespeare's sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren't trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how feminist historians, by challenging traditional accounts of both men's and women's histories, have stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.--From publisher description.
The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeare's daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves.
The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeares daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HQ 1121 .U517 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 251597 |
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| HQ 1121 .L47 1986 The creation of feminist consciousness : from the Middle Ages to eighteen-seventy / | HQ 1121 .L47 1986 v.1 The creation of patriarchy / | HQ 1121 .O33 1973b Not in God's image : [women in history from the Greeks to the Victorians] / | HQ 1121 .U517 2007 Well-behaved women seldom make history / | HQ 1127 .I43 1993 Images of women in antiquity / | HQ 1127 .V56 2007 Daughters of Gaia : women in the ancient Mediterranean world / | HQ 1130 .B76 1998 Women in ancient Persia, 559-331 B.C. / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[231]-269) and index.
"They didn't ask to be remembered," historian 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 on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich 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. She contrasts Woolf's imagined story about Shakespeare's sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren't trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how feminist historians, by challenging traditional accounts of both men's and women's histories, have stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.--From publisher description.
The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeare's daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves.
The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeares daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves.
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