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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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From admired historianand coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogansLaurel 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 centurys 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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AliD73
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lazydaizee Very true, it is the badly behaved women who get all the attention. 3y
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Chrissyreadit
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1. Hogwarts
2.The Best Years Of Our Lives
3. Having my children
4. All Littens- you and you and you....

#tuesdaytidbits

JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 7y
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I borrowed this from my sister in law so long ago...hoping to read this next month. #imeverywoman #fiercefeb

batsy Nice! This sounds really interesting. 7y
Librarybelle @batsy I thought it did too! 7y
kspenmoll Years ago I read her Midwives book. This one looks interesting. Stacked! (edited) 7y
Librarybelle @kspenmoll I bet that was interesting! Thanks! 7y
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mrsmarch
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It is really hard wrapping for #secretsantagoespostal #summersolsticebookexchange with a fussy teething six-month-old in hand, but I made it! And I realized my box has a theme.... #wellbehavedwomenseldommakehistory

TrishB Lovely 💝 7y
pocketmermaid I wonder what that item at the top is! ;) 7y
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Smangela We're twins with the fussy teething 6 month olds 😂 7y
mrsmarch @Smangela 🍷🍷🍷🍷 7y
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Loreen
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Well-behaved women seldom make history. --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich #womensmarch

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GeorginaCrossAuthor
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I love this saying. I also love it's the title of her book. ✨

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ThatLibrarianLady
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman after my own heart!

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ThatLibrarianLady
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"It seemed to me that every book taught the 'divinely ordained' headship of man, but my mind never yielded to this popular heresy." I think I like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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ThatLibrarianLady
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"While some women contemplate the demise of feminism, others seem to have only just discovered it." Thinking about my kiddos at school.

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ThatLibrarianLady
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Since I've gotten pretty into my fiction audiobook, I thought I'd start a nonfiction in print.