Includes bibliographical references and index.Ĭhristine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431. 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. Ulrich uses examples of influential women from history and employs the rhetorical appeals of pathos, ethos and logos to create an extremely effective argument for the support of the statement Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren't trying to make history, but did. This book features personal essays and poems, mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s. She contrasts Woolf's imagined story about Shakespeare's sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. 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. "They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine or Google for you.
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