Well-behaved women seldom make history

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Label

Well-behaved women seldom make history

Statement of responsibility

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Creator

• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938-

Subject

• Feminism
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
• Women -- History
• Women in literature
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431

Language

eng

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

Member of

• qEnglish English | qBook Book

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.4209182/1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1121

LC item number

.U517 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography