296 pages including index. Free shipping media mail. Good Wives is a study in role definition an extended description constructed from a series of vignettes. In organization and intent it is a little those elongated samplers worked by young women in seventeenth-century England and America. View More...
In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history." Ulrich explains how it 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 cr... View More...
