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Laurel Ulrich traces the origins and evolution of the phrase "Well-behaved women seldom make history," showing how women’s quiet acts and intellectual pursuits have often reshaped the past. Spanning from fifteenth‑century writer Christine de Pizan to nineteenth‑century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and twentieth‑century novelist Virginia Woolf, Ulrich juxtaposes imagined worlds with real biographies, re‑examines historical moments through alternative lenses, and highlights the feminist scholarship of the 1970s that brought overlooked women into the historical record. Her work celebrates the collaborative renewal of history fueled by amateurs, activists, and professional historians alike.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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