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Well-behaved women seldom make history Cover Image Book

Well-behaved women seldom make history / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938- (Author).

Summary:

Examines three key works by women--the fifteenth-century "Book of the City of Ladies" by Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's memoirs, and Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," to explore the making of history from a woman's perspective.

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  • ISBN: 9781400041596
  • Physical Description: xxxiv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-269) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The slogan -- Three writers -- Amazons -- Shakespeare's daughters -- Slaves in the attic -- A book of days -- Waves -- Making history.

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Subject:
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431. Livre de la cité des dames.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Eighty years and more.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Room of one's own.
Women > History.
Women in literature.
Feminism.
Women.
Womyn.
Feminism.
Women's movement.

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