Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Women's Studies Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.” Stephens, Randall J. (2009). "Randall J. Stephens – "The Importance of Studying Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich". Historically Speaking. 10 (2): 10–11. doi: 10.1353/hsp.0.0021. S2CID 161751483. live Tara blaze downgraded in Queensland as authorities gain the upper hand on grassfires outside Sydney

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (1992). "Martha's Diary and Mine". Journal of Women's History. 4 (2): 157–160. doi: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0144. S2CID 146288891. As First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt was admired, but controversial. Now, she frequently tops US polls as the most popular First Lady in history. Fascination with her life and character has only increased, indexed by a steady stream of books focused on her private life — her marriage to womaniser FDR, her passionate friendships with women and men, who may or may not have been lovers — as well her public achievements. However, history is rarely made in those places, even though in part, it is. That is what makes this sentence so powerful: precisely because it touches on multiple truths in subtle ways. There is a place for both: the loud and the quiet.

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MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870. (2017). Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 978-0-307-59490-7 In 1968, Eleanor Roosevelt was posthumously awarded the UN Human Rights Prize and in 1998, the United Nations Association of the USA inaugurated the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award. Photograph by Jim Harrison, Harvard Magazine, 1999. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was born in 1938 in Sugar City, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1960 with a BA in English. That fall she moved with her husband, Gael Ulrich, to Boston, Massachusetts so he could begin graduate work at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). During the next ten years, while engaged with her growing family, she worked with a dynamic group of Mormon women to produce a popular guidebook to Boston (a fund-raising project for their local congregation) and helped to found a Mormon feminist newspaper. Exponent II (now a magazine available in print or on-line). Taking one course a semester, she completed an MA in English at Simmons College in 1971. Most well-behaved women are too busy living their lives to think about recording what they do and too modest about their own achievements to think anybody else will care.”

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650–1750. (1982). Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 978-0-394-51940-1. Reissued by Vintage (1991), ISBN 978-0-679-73257-0 Women can no longer be ignored, dismissed or forgotten. This blog seeks to redress the historical silence surrounding women. Throughout history there have always been women who defied the expectations of their gender. Women who have forged their way into male dominated fields. It is easy to assume that women have only recently begun fighting for equality, but this is not true. This blog features women from all walks of life, from all time periods, from all continents with one thing in common - they refused to be limited by the contemporary expectations surrounding their gender. Elizabeth vowed to do just that. When she grew up she would not only go down to Albany but journey across the Atlantic and throughout the United States in defense of women’s rights. By then, she and her family had moved to Durham, New Hampshire, where Gael took a faculty position in the Engineering School at the University of New Hampshire. Taking advantage of tuition benefits available to faculty wives, she gradually shifted her focus from literature to history. After completing Ph.D. in Early American History in 1980, she accepted a part-time position administering a freshmen humanities program at UNH. She published her revised dissertation Good Wives with Alfred A. Knopf in 1982 . Her second book, A Midwife’s Tale followed in 1990. By then, she had become a full- time member of the UNH history department. While telling the stories of these history-making women, Ulrich illuminates the intended meaning behind the slogan that is the title of her book. When the slogan appears out of context, it becomes open to wide interpretation, and has, subsequently, been used as a call to activism and sensational — even negative — behavior. In fact, Ulrich says, the phrase points to the reasons that women’s lives have limited representation in historical narrative, and she goes on to look at the type of people and events that do become public record.A bravura performance. . . . Ulrich is brilliant here. . . . Few have done as much to so profoundly enrich and enlarge our vision of the past.”— The Boston Globe Laurel Thatcher was born July 11, 1938, [3] in Sugar City, Idaho, to John Kenneth Thatcher, schoolteacher and superintendent as well as state legislator and farmer; and Alice Siddoway Thatcher. [3] She graduated from the University of Utah, majoring in English and journalism, and gave the valedictory speech at commencement. [3] dohistory.org – an online version of Martha Ballard's diary and information about A Midwife's Tale, a joint project of Harvard University and George Mason University Get Professor Ulrich’s book on the Buzzkill Bookshelf. Believe me when I tell you that it’ll open your eyes about women’s history and what it means to make history. Things are improving somewhat, Buzzkillers. Professor Ulrich’s name often appears next to the quote on the inter-webs these days. And, indeed, she wrote a book not only about how this quote came about, but in it, she also shows how various important women have either been championed or ignored by history, and how those things come to be.

Lythgoe, Dennis (October 21, 2007). "Ulrich touts women in history". Deseret Morning News. p.E10. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013.

For example, let’s think about stereotypes with modern music. Justin Bieber is very disliked and his fanbase often gets eyerolls. I’m not a big fan of him myself. There’s a reason he’s hated, but I want you to ask yourself how you think people typically react to a teenage girl saying that their favorite song is “Baby” by Justin Bieber and then compare it to the reaction people would typically have to a teenage boy saying that his favorite song is “Run It!” by Chris Brown. People will probably form more of a bias against the girl saying she likes Bieber even though Chris Brown has a history of domestic violence, including that time he punched Rihanna in the face on camera. Israel says strikes on refugee camp killed senior Hamas leader, Palestinian officials say 50 people dead Throughout history, “good” women’s lives were largely domestic, notes Ulrich. Little has been recorded about them because domesticity has not previously been considered a topic that merits inquiry. It is only through unconventional or outrageous behavior that women’s lives broke outside of this domestic sphere, and therefore were recorded and, thus, remembered by later generations. Ulrich points out that histories of “ordinary” women have not been widely known because historians have not looked carefully at their lives, adding that by exploring this facet of our past, we gain a richer understanding of history. Section 9 is centered around a mass murder that occurred in Hallowell. James Purrinton, one of Martha's neighbors, murdered his wife and all of his children but one, who escaped. Martha's entry adds another viewpoint on this historic event. Ulrich writes, “The economy of Martha’s telling contrasts with the more self-conscious narrative published (and probably composed) by Peter Edes, editor of Augusta’s Kennebec Gazette.”