![]() ![]() And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history. Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did. Among her many publications, her books include The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. 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. AmRev360: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. ![]() 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. Laurel Thatcher Ulrichs essay Well Behaved Women is a reflection on how she believes her slogan Well behaved women seldom make history became so. 284 pp.įrom 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. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History ![]()
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