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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400075270

ISBN-139781400075270

eBay Product ID (ePID)111371134

Product Key Features

Book TitleWell-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicWomen, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Historiography, Subjects & Themes / Women, Social Activists, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorLaurel Thatcher Ulrich

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past." -- The Boston Globe "The book is a pleasure to read. . . . Ulrich's style is plain and direct." -- The Washington Post Book World "Ulrich writes with deep insight and humor about subjects that touch our daily lives." -- The Washington Times, "A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past." -The Boston Globe "The book is a pleasure to read. . . . Ulrich's style is plain and direct." -The Washington Post Book World "Ulrich writes with deep insight and humor about subjects that touch our daily lives." -The Washington Times, "A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past." - The Boston Globe "The book is a pleasure to read. . . . Ulrich's style is plain and direct." - The Washington Post Book World "Ulrich writes with deep insight and humor about subjects that touch our daily lives." - The Washington Times , Advance praise for Laurel Thatcher Ulrich'sWell-Behaved Women Seldom Make History "A tribute to the women who have made history as well as the scholars who write about them, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's probing and ambitious book casts its net widely. Women warriors, medieval writers, fugitive slaves, second-wave feminists, and even T-shirt entrepreneurs people its pagesand command our attention." -Susan Ware, editor ofNotable American Women "If you have any doubt of the revolution in knowledge about women's history that has taken place since 1970, read this book!" -Nancy F. Cott, author ofNo Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States "Gives new meaning to the importance of knowing about women who were 'bad' enough to make 'good' history." -Darlene Clark Hine, author ofThe African-American Odyssey "As the bumper sticker based on her earlier work says, well-behaved women seldom (or rarely) make history. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich shows this is sometimes true, but also reveals that at key moments well-behaved women do make history. With dazzling chronological and geographical sweep, Ulrich also demonstrates that historians, both those well-behaved and misbehaving, also make, write, and rewrite history." -Daniel Horowitz, author ofBetty Friedan and the Making ofThe Feminine Mystique "A wonderful book, playful and serious, entertaining and informative, and always inspiring. Ulrich displays an amazing breadth of knowledge about women in all times and places, from Amazons to Wonder Woman to Jessica Lynch." -Marjorie Spruill, author ofNew Women of the New South From the Hardcover edition., "A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past." - The Boston Globe "The book is a pleasure to read. . . . Ulrich's style is plain and direct." - The Washington Post Book World "Ulrich writes with deep insight and humor about subjects that touch our daily lives." - The Washington Times

Dewey Decimal305.4209182/1

SynopsisFrom 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.

LC Classification NumberHQ1121.U517 2008