The women that do make history that Ulrich communicated to us through this essay were the
The women that do make history that Ulrich communicated to us through this essay were the
Laurel Ulrich has written several books about women’s rights. Laurel made a statement in in of her books that became hugely popular in California. Well-behaved women seldom make history. This simple statement changed hundreds of lives and Laurel didn’t even realize it. A women in Oregon asked permission to use this statement to be printed on shirts. Laurel was shocked and only agreed to allow her to use this if she was sent a shirt. This accidental fame gave her a new perspective on American pop culture. This quote works because it plays into the long stereotypes about the invisibility and the innate decorum of women. A lot of people thing women are over shadowed in history…
However, I believe Ulrich’s book might benefit from discussing the modern stereotype of females in colonial New England. She mentioned in her introduction and forward that modern interpretation of colonial female rights is skewed, but did not expand on her statement. I feel like the Ulrich’s work might benefit from a section dedicated to the modern stereotypes of females in colonial New England and how those stereotypes…
Ulrich begins her essay with a response from a student when she learns that her famous quote had been featured on many occasions. Ulrich then clarifies the meaning behind her quote saying that good women on few occasions make history as a response to how women where portrayed in Puritan funeral sermons. Ulrich then shares her experience with other people wanting to use her quote, in some cases people had asked for permission for it use and others to capitalize or make a profit. Ulrich makes…
Throughout time, scholars have wanted to understand American women’s history. Gender has played a role in shaping the behaviors and ideas within societies. The gender role that women played can be looked at in a historically specific manner. In the early 1500s through the late-nineteenth century, women have had a silenced place in society and within their home. This ideology silences real women’s voices under patriarchal structures. In the time period of Early America, women were silenced through various factors such as the laws and ideas created within marriage, views of women given by society, and…
From the beginning of time, women have subtly shaped the history of the human race. Just by operating under social normality or defying it, a woman can cause a movement. In Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman’s book, A History of Women in America, they focus on the more modern changes women have had on history rather than focusing more on the impact women had on the foundation of the United States.…
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich claims, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” By this she means that being ordinary is “well-behaved,” and being obedient does not make changes to anything, but it does pass on tradition of how to behave. Therefore, creating chaos politically draws attention to make it in history. To make a legacy, you must be uniquely different and brave to stand up against the set rules. Women such as Jeannette Rankin is one of that stubborn and demanding person in history. Jeannette Rankin is such an inspiration for women, gives women hope that they can be anything they set their heart to. Jeanette was a suffragist, pacifist, and the first congresswoman. I believe that her education played a significant role in her success. People…
Her arguments allow us to examine the purpose of women’s education within this period differently. Similarly, secondary sources discussing American history outside of this period address major themes of women engaging inside and outside of the domestic sphere. In Amy Kaplan’s Manifest Domesticity, she focuses on the female influence within the home and the abilities of women to create…
“Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” is a slogan from an essay by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has a large meaning on women in society. This statement is eye catching and goes in to great detail on perceptions of women from the past and present. As women we are defined by what we do and what we say. We are judged as mothers, caretakers, and workers. Our own children one day will look back and describe their childhood with their mothers in it.…
This book explains the history of America starting from 1492 until the present. The history is told from the common people’s point of view. During my presentation I summarized chapters six through ten. Chapter six was titled “The Intimately Oppressed” and it refers to the inequalities in the lives of women during and after the revolution. Even though African American women had it the hardest, he referred to more women such as Caucasian, Native American and European women. African American women did more hard labor and were often sexually abused. In the early years women were used primarily as sex slaves, child bearers and companions. Anne Hutchinson was a good speaker and held meetings that many women and a few men attended. She ended up being banished from her colony because the government felt that she was challenging their authority and the church for heresy. A woman’s job during this era was to maintain religion, cook, clean and anything else that involved house duties or tending to their husband or children.…
In the early 1700’s the lives of men and women were very different. Social equality was not extended to the women in the household. Wealth, intelligence, and social status were not of importance when it came to be head of the household. They were taught that their husbands were above then and that it was a “wife’s duty” to “love and reverence them,” (Henretta 97).…
When historian Laurel Ulrich began her research into the lives of American Revolution-era women, she was hardly encouraged by her initial efforts. "You won't find much," everyone seemed to say. And when she began making her way through the diary of midwife Martha Ballard, she was delving into a book that others had found next-to-useless--too full of trivial detail, or so they said. But the details were what she found interesting; and faced with so few sources, Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had, to discover the unspoken realities of women's lives written between the lines of Ballard's diary.…
Alonso H. (2004). Thinking and Acting Locally and Globally. Journal of Women 's History 16.1 (2004) 148-164…
Supplee, M., & Wilson, E. (n.d.). Session 1: The Importance of WomenÂ’s History. Welcome to the North Carolina Museum of History. Retrieved July 8, 2011, from http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/womenshistory/SESSION1.html…
Women in American history have long played important roles from Abigail Adams and her clandestine letters to Alice Paul and her bold proclamation for women’s equality. Partly inspired by the…
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual effforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” Clara Boothe Luce, a very significant author of the 30’s, describes the harsh judgment that was passed upon woman during this trialing time in American history. A similarly influential author, Margaret Fuller was one of the innovators of the feminist movement in America. Her influence on the social views of 1830’s America spread, from her climb up journalism ladder to her place in the Italian Revolution, is indisputable.…