Book Summary

���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.

���In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, "Well behaved women seldom make history."� Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs.� Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written.� 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 updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did.� And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history.

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