From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian--and coiner of one of feminism\'s most popular slogans--comes the kind of book to Make a woman muscle-flexing proud (The Plain Dealer).
And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created second-wave feminism also created a renaissance in the study of history..
Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the Women who didn\'t try to Make History but did.
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 explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at Women of the past who challenged the way History was written.
Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs.
In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, Well behaved Women Seldom Make history.
From 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.
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian--and coiner of one of feminism\'s most popular slogans--comes the kind of book to Make a woman muscle-flexing proud (The Plain Dealer)
