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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Knopf
Price: $24.00
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LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH discusses
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Harvard Book Store is pleased to host Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a discussion of her book Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. In 1976, graduate student Ulrich asserted in an obscure scholarly article that well-behaved women seldom make history. But Ulrich, now at Harvard, made history, winning the Pulitzer and the Bancroft Prizes for A Midwife's Tale--and her slogan did, too: it began popping up on T-shirts, greeting cards, and buttons. Why the appeal, Ulrich wondered? And what makes a woman qualify as well-behaved or rebellious? Ulrich’s new study 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. Ulrich updates de Pizan’s Amazons with stories about women warriors from other times and places. She contrasts Woolf’s imagined story about Shakespeare’s sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. Throughout, she shows how the feminist wave of the 1970s created a generation of historians who by challenging traditional accounts of both men's and women's histories stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.
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CONTACT:
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, October 2nd |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is currently 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard. Her book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and several other awards. Ulrich’s discovery of Martha Ballard and her work on Ballard’s diary have been chronicled in a documentary film written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Experience television series. Ulrich, currently a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar, has also been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship as well as numerous other honors and awards.
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