Feminism In James Fallows's 'Throwing Like A Girl'

Given these points, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has addressed that women who misbehave do make history. From the illustrations to the title, the tone in the passage, and also the effectiveness in pathos. The author indeed succeeded in proving that women that challenge the expectations of society do make history. The analytic form in her essay is clean, very well written, and argumentative that women should be just as important as men are. Even though the stereotypes of the 3 women had judgments and consequences, the faces of those women will run the course throughout history as women who indeed occasionally misbehaved but yet remained in the historical books and will always be remembered. Even though there may be possible bias in some aspects, the

Continuing to brain wash the young men today with the “sports is a mans world” mentality only helps to repeat the cycle of nearly oppressing women in the industry. It keeps men feeling secure when it comes to their masculinity, yet making a woman’s fight for respect a never ending struggle.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, an author and professor of history at Harvard University, introduced the phrase in a 1976 journal article about the characterization of women in Puritan funeral sermons. Ulrich more recently wrote a book, based on the phrase, that explores how women in the past have challenged the ways history was written. In her essay “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” Ulrich discusses the history of the phrase, how it was coined, and how it has taken on a life of its own. The phrase is now commonly seen on everything from t-shirts to coffee mugs, and has been featured in magazine articles and even advertising campaigns. She reflects on how her “accidental fame” has given her new insights into her historical studies.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” This is a quote that was taken from a scholarly article written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The article for this assignment discusses how this single line ignited a fire within the female population across the nation. Ulrich published her article that was titled with this line in 1976. From there, it was used in 1995, when journalist Kay Mills used it as an epigraph for her informal history of American women, From Pocahontas to Power Suits.

The novel, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, by Laurel Ulrich is about women who never intended to make history but did in different ways. History is usually always revolved around men, and not many mention about the women who have helped in creating history. Through the early modern era women showed progress in making the United States a better place. With writers and activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Christine de Pizan and Virginia Woolf, the contributions from these individuals they influenced others with bettering our country with different movements that have changed the view of what we see today and what we could have seen if these women did not take any action.

As women in society has evolved to become innovational women of today’s time, creating genetic cures and becoming billionaire's through one children’s book ;it didn’t immediately happen over night. Women for centuries struggled their way to make a difference in the world, through patriarchal influence, being beaten their way back down to nothing as they attempt to climb up into society. The patriarchal idea has even spread to literature like British literature such as Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Beowulf, as they gave women such a antagonistic role within these tragic historical fictions. Gifting them such low character qualities that every reader seems to hate and even not giving certain women names! The deeper reason for the way women’s roles

The sports world has been a new area where women are recognized. In previous times women’s sports were almost non-existent. In schools many girl teams did not receive adequate funds for uniforms and equipment. Boys sports were much more popular, such as football or basketball. If a girl wanted to play a guy sport she would be labeled as a

As noted in class discussion and course readings, the twentieth-century created a major shift in women’s history and that shift is also notable

In most history books, women get far fewer pages than men. This is sometimes attributed to a lack of material left behind by women through time, but this and their relative lack of coverage are both testaments to the limits placed on women in the male dominated societies of the times discussed. An article on feminist literary criticism quotes Virginia Woolf saying, “woman ‘pervaded poetry from cover to cover’ but was ‘in fact the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring on her finger’” (Lanser 5). In more recent history, strong female voices abound in literature as well as in social issues, or, as is common, in both. Like Virginia Woolf, other prolific authors of the nineteenth century wrote of the plights of female protagonists in

"Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl" was similar to the above to articles. It suggested how roles of society predict female and male roles. He referred to personal childhood memories. Reminiscing how while playing sports, his father, would encourage him to throw hard ball overhand. And how if he didn't he was throwing like a girl. He would be teased and taunted by friends and family if he did not play the sport hard and rough, because that's how boys do it. He also pointed out that his sister was more talented in sports than he but could not play. Basically, this authors position was traditional roles needs to be deleted with a new modern way of thinking. We know more now than we did when traditional male and female roles were established and we should all concur with the new age liberation and equality. (Messner, 1992)

Women have been treated and portrayed similarly throughout history-- Made to be housewives and handmaidens to men of all ages and expected to be the “perfect woman”, a standard image created by--shocker--men. In fifth-century Greece, the “perfect” woman was expected to obey her husbands at all times. The “perfect” English Renaissance women was meant to be seen, not heard. The “perfect” woman of the eighteen hundreds was given novels to read. Novels that held lighter topics than the newspapers of the day, such as intemperance, nothing too heavy because “once a woman starts reading, she starts getting ideas” (indirect quote from Beauty and the Beast). The tables began to turn in 1848, when the first women’s suffrage movement convention was held in Seneca Falls, when women began to realize what Emma Goldman voiced years later in 1915. The “perfect woman” image began to crumble. Skirts became shorter, topics became heavier, women started thinking, forming ideas, becoming more outspoken, creating their own image, without the aid of men. Slowly, they climbed their way up, proving to be more independent and more than what men thought them to be. How women were viewed as by a society, and their evolution of independence, has bled through in literature, especially through female deities in ancient mythologies. Over time, goddesses of different mythologies have grown bolder and more powerful as the world finally noticed that women were actually people, not pretty trophies. Greek,

The fair-sex, the whimsical-sex, the gentle-sex, these are some of the phrases usually used in reference to the female gender. Through the course of history those have been romanticized and accepted as a positive synonym of women; they can be found in an innumerable amount of romantic stories and even in official, governmental, and historical documents. However, the reality is that these phrases constitute nothing more than patronizing, disrespectful appellatives used to rob women of their dignity and diminish their contribution to our society. A clear evidence of said discrimination resides in the fact that the majority of literature and history books are written by male authors. In 2015 the magazine The Slate made a survey of the gender and approach of the history books published for general readers and the results showed a total of 75.8% of male writer. (1) Said discrimination goes farther than just gender; it includes race and ethnicity in the mix and creates a complex compound that fuses together and targets a specific group, in this case the Latin women.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, in a scholarly article written in 1976, wrote that “well-behaved women seldom make history” (Ulrich XIII). Over time, that phrase has became a slogan for feminists around the world. It appears on many products and media, like shirts, jewelry, and even wine glasses. At the time she wrote it, she meant for it to mean that women who are well-behaved do not get their stories told, even if they did something extraordinary or heroic, though now, people interpret it in many different ways.

When describing someone who is feeble, slow-moving, or lacking athletic ability, people often use the phrase “Like a girl.” A company called always, created and then released an ad campaign showing how detrimental and harmful this negative stereotypical phrase was to women because of their gender. Female athletes everywhere had an outstanding year in sports. Mo’ne Davis jumped up to the plate and became the first girl to pitch a winning game in the Little League World Series. Serena Williams has 21 grand slam titles. The successes began to proceed into the U.S. women’s national soccer team, they won the World Cup. Many great accomplishments have happened dealing with the ladies, but the big question still remains: Will these wonderful achievements

It is strange for me to think about a world where women are looked down upon for having ideas and a voice. If I want to become a writer, most people in our modern time would not think twice about it. Now, I say most people. There are always exceptions. I cannot imagine living in a time where I would be ridiculed because of something that I have written down on paper. Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen wanted to speak out for women’s education and rights. In the face of repercussion, they did just that. Through a simple understanding of Judith Butler’s Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limit of “Sex”, we will be able to have a better understanding of these three authors.