Laxmi Sitaula Sarah Frazier English 109 10/05/2017 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Laurel Thacher Ulrich, who is a professor in Harvard university is an editor and author of half-dozen books. She uses the phrase “well-behaved women seldom make history” in her journal articles which was published in 1976; called “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735”. She did not know that her phrase will be so popular and printed on t-shirt, greeting cards, mugs, and other places. This essay focus on how well-behaved women also could history. She gives the examples of; Mae West, Rosa Park, Martha Ballard, who all are women and they create a history. They are well-behaved. That is not compulsory that to create a history people needs to fight and behaved rudely. Sometimes we just have to say ‘no’ to change something in the society. She says doing unexpected thing often change the activities and create history. Women should live …show more content…
She supports men to achieve success and create history but men never mentioned that. If same situation happened and men support women or sometimes they do not support. Women create a history or achieve success then credit goes to the man either husband or father or some other male relation. Women are of course more caring, kind and supportive then men because of their nurture, but being that really make difficult for women to live how she want to live her life? Women could take care of her house as well as they can go outside of the house to work. There are a lot of women in the society like; professors, pilots, business women, bankers and so on who are handing both house and work perfectly. They are also creating history which means changing the view point of
...ths of the sixteenth century. Yes, women of that time and place left a very light mark on history. Eventually, the story the book tells spirals down into just some nasty courtroom feuds among family members. The story provides a driving narrative that brings into intimate contact disparate kinds that are still prevalent today. And the conclusion drawn from Anna's actions and reactions may surprise. In both everyday life and in times of crisis, women in the twenty first century has access to effective personal and legal resources.
For a long time ago, women just did anything at home: clean the house, wash clothes, cook the meals, and work outside the house and nutrient their children. Then they followed to order from their husband at home, and listen to the words of their husband. In addition, they made many little things in the military: wash clothes, serve the meals, and fix the clothes. The next things that it was convinced me when women had their own value in society. They began to raise their own worth and sense of themselves to build their country even though no one explained to them. People can consider that they endured very much but they did not still accept
Women had no choice but to follow whatever society told them to because there was no other option for them. Change was very hard for these women due to unexpected demands required from them. They held back every time change came their way, they had to put up with their oppressors because they didn’t have a mind of their own. Both authors described how their society affected them during this historical period.
" Well Behaved Women" " Well behaved women rarely make history. " This is a famous quote said by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Ms. Ulrich is a professor of history at Harvard University and she is well known for many of her publications, one of them being "Good Wives" a book written about women in Northern New England 1650-1750. Her writings offer an individualized picture of an important part of colonial society in all aspects, a society in which the boundaries of men and women sometimes were blurred within the individual household.
Ulrich takes a captivating approach to this pattern of women’s history. There is a slogan of a t-shirt, and among other small items, “well behaved women seldom make history” printed on them. It describes the objects and the people who use them regarding statement and the meaning behind the slogan. It relates to Ulrich first interpretation of it and what my analysis reveals about the role of slogans and history.
Majority of early historians started to research about the life and social class of women in the past and sometimes based on stories of famous female figures. Western ideology historians started to developed new method of describing past female life. Many lean toward the side of Marxist history, which look at the diffe...
The book became a great source of information for me, which explained the difficulties faced by women of the mentioned period. The author succeeded to convince me that today it is important to remember the ones who managed to change the course of history. Contemporary women should be thankful to the processes, which took place starting from the nineteenth century. Personally, I am the one believing that society should live in terms of equality. It is not fair and inhuman to create barriers to any of the social members.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. New York: Random House, Inc., 2007. Print.
The androcentric view of history often fails to acknowledge the achievements of notable women who have made profound impacts that have revolutionized the way in which we see the world, as well as the universe. Although the modernized 21st century society is more apt to recognize the achievements of women with an equivocal perspective with men, it was not always so. During the early 20th century, women were consistently denied equality with men due to a perverse androcentric, male-dominated perspective that deemed women as subordinate and insignificant. This androcentric perspective limited the opportunities available to women at the time, leaving them only with domestic occupations that were deemed acceptable for women such as nurses, teachers or clerics. Very few women aspired for higher education, and even fewer achieved it. There were very few colleges that accepted women at the time, save for those erected for women alone. It is because of this, women rarely e...
These women authors have served as an eye-opener for the readers, both men and women alike, in the past, and hopefully still in the present. (There are still cultures in the world today, where women are treated as unfairly as women were treated in the prior centuries). These women authors have impacted a male dominated society into reflecting on of the unfairness imposed upon women. Through their writings, each of these women authors who existed during that masochistic Victorian era, risked criticism and retribution. Each author ignored convention a...
... middle of paper ... ... Women are not expected to be just plain housewives, taking care of their husbands and children. They get high education and nice jobs with promising salaries.
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In American society, the woman has always been viewed in the traditional viewpoint of what role she should play in the home; that she is the homemaker or caretaker. Even when women break from the stereotypical role of "housewife" and join the workforce, they still are not given an equal opportunity at acquiring a job that is seen to be as advancing or of higher recognition, as they would like to have. Men usually already take those positions.
In the past, many people believed that women’s exclusive responsibilities were to serve their husband, to be great mothers and to be the perfect wives. Those people considered women to be more appropriate for homemaking rather than to be involved in business or politics. This meant that women were not allowed to have a job, to own property or to enjoy the same major rights as men. The world is changing and so is the role of women in society. In today’s society, women have rights that they never had before and higher opportunities to succeed.
However, women have made optimistical progress towards equality and their role in the society has been changed dramatically since the last century. Many women stepped out of their home and start to work at factories and offices. The number of working women with children has more than doubled in the past 50 years. While working conditions for women may have improved, there is a lack of appreciation for the notion that work for most women doesn't end at the door of a factory or office. Despite an increase of women's participation in the labour force, women's share of housework has hardly changed in 50 years.