By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A variety from the sought after historical past Well-Behaved ladies Seldom Make heritage, the tale of ways one among feminism’s hottest slogans got here to lifestyles.
In the outlet paragraph of an imprecise 1976 scholarly article investigating the prim and correct ladies celebrated in Puritan funeral sermons, Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich penned the word, “Well-behaved girls seldom make history.” for the reason that then, Ulrich’s slogan has been wear bumper stickers, T-shirts, and tote luggage, in greeting playing cards and political speeches, getting into the cultural recognition in every type of unforeseen methods. In “The Slogan,” Ulrich supplies a short historical past of her much-quoted phrases, and sketches out a primer on feminism at the present time and how it maintains to make heritage.
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351. Watts suggests that one of West’s grandfathers may have been black. On this point, see Heather O’Donnell, “Signifying Sex,” American Quarterly 54 (2002): 499–505. 18. Shana Pearson to Laurel Ulrich, August 4, 2003, copy of e-mail in my possession, used by permission. 19. : Charro Press, 1991), p. html. 20. C. Alvin Hughes, “A New Agenda for the South: The Role and Influence of the Highlander Folk School, 1953–1961,” Phylon 46 (1985): 242–50. 21. David J. : Carlson, 1989), p. 546. 22. Steven M.
Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history. My objective was not to lament their oppression, but to give them a history. ” However it happened, the words just slipped out, unbidden and without struggle. Or so it seemed. But when I tell the story this way, I leave out several important facts. I was not only a thirty-six-year-old housewife enrolled in a graduate seminar in early American history. ” Both “isms” mattered: despite my flirtation with the women’s movement, I too went to church even when it snowed.
A. A. D. from the University of New Hampshire. She was previously Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and is currently Phillips Professor of Early American History and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. Her book A Midwife’s Tale won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the American Historical Society’s John H. Dunning and Joan Kelly Memorial Prizes. Ulrich’s discovery of Martha Ballard and work on the diary has 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.