Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Well-Behaved In History

(Ulrich p. 5) Her research clearly establishes that despite the hierarchal and patriarchal nature of their society, women during this time contributed in essential and complex ways not only to their households and their communities, but the story of women is a central and crucial part of our American history. Ulrich supports her thesis by showing women adeptly performed any job necessary that benefited the family including that of deputy husband; “women played a central part in the communications network” which connected neighborhoods; women controlled sexual behavior; women engaged in and controlled significant trade; women exercised “considerable influence in the churches” and “enlarged the meaning of their own lives” as Christians; and women demonstrated heroic qualities “in the face of hardships of

Excavations carried out on Stonehenge led to the discovery of multiple human remains which where later uncovered to be majority female. The bones had been sexed, uncovered further details about the role and importance of women in ancient England. The number of women’s remains found buried at the monument so close to those of the male counterpart, it’s suggests women may be been of importance and or value to their society.

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

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” These words were penned by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of half a dozen books and professor of history at Harvard University. She uses her ability to write to help give a voice to those who are overlooked and underappreciated. Ulrich stumbled upon accidental fame when her phrase, “well-behaved women seldom make history” was discovered by Jill Portugal, a student from Oregon. Portugal asked to use Thatcher’s phrase for a feminist campaign she was heading up; many women identified with the emotion the phrase embodied and its popularity spread; before many years it was found emblazoned on mugs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers. Today her words are still a catchphrase among feminists and women who are seeking to be heard. Thatcher explores the truth of her phrase in her article, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” by exploring the lives of two unique women: Mae West and Rosa Parks.

In today’s society, we as women often take for granted the rights, freedoms, and equality we share with men that women in the ancient world were not granted. As all civilisations in the ancient world exercised different treatment towards, this essay will illustrate a few comparisons in the status of women during ancient Egypt with women during ancient Rome. Academic sources will be relied on to provide the necessary actualities when one considers ancient civilizations. The legal status of women in society, the domestic atmospheres and roles that each unique region’s women held, and the possible occupations available to these women, will be discussed.

By ignoring the role of women in history, we could not see the whole picture in understanding history. The role of women is necessary to understand the minor details. For example, the one who improve the traders’ position and trade in the fur trade society is actually the women with them marrying the traders. History is a matter of cause and effect, even the slightest change of action could change the course of history. The same things goes for women, even though their contributions were not being admitted by the society at that time, they affect the course of the

From nearly the beginning of time, it is known through history that women didn’t play a major role in society. This plays true even in the realm of literature. The earliest known story known to be written down, “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” shows that even in the early 2000’s BCE that women might have played a different role than that is depicted by actual history books. There is another emergence in women in literature that happens around 500 BCE that shows the women were more prevalent in society’s time. In the drama “Medea” it is shown how women play a major role in the Greek culture. The last major example about a woman’s role in society is the role they play in “A thousand and One Nights.” It is seen here how the role of the woman has a direct

The Roman and Han elites regard towards women reveal patriarchal societies which expected women to be respectful, obedient, chaste, submissive, and dutiful. Independently, ‘Lessons for a Woman’, reflects the Han Empire’s inaction to formally educate girls, whereas, Roman philosopher, Musonius Rufus, emphasizes the benefits of an educated woman.

Throughout the years, society has expressed their views on the role of women. Women are the ones who cook, clean, and take care of the children in society. This domestic role was set up thousands of years ago by ancient civilizations. These male dominant cultures believed women should be hidden in the community. Even today, their beliefs permeate our cultures.

This paper will show that women played a vitally important role in the development of the early Christian church. Women were the last disciples at the foot of the cross, and they were the first witnesses at the empty tomb. Due to a predominately patriarchal society, this may be one of the best-kept secrets in Christianity (Kroger). During the time of Jesus’ ministry, women were considered inferior to men in virtually every way.

Ancient Rome was one of the biggest and most influential civilizations in history. The world we know would not be the same without its involvement. Romans practically shaped the Western history, which influenced the whole world as the result. They affected the modern government’s systems, laws, arts, literature, languages and even religions. The importance of it is great and undeniable. Unfortunately, most of the works and sources we have today are written by men and lack sources about women in the ancient Rome. Most of the time in the history books, women’s roles and achievements are rarely mentioned. Even though the Roman Empire was very progressive and open-minded state for that time, and gave a great push for further progress of the

From wars to nature, history allows humans to expend their knowledge and become better than those you did not have the knowledge. Humans face major modern political and environmental issues, therefore people place less focus on social issues, which sometimes are the roots of other varies problems. By reading Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, one notices the progress that both men and women have made towards women roles and rights, but also many similarities to modern society. Women have and continue to be very important to the up keeping of the household and family values, resulting in preconceived notions in regards to their responsibilities and morals. As women have become more educated and joining the labor force that has combated the preconceived notions and standards that women have continuously faced in history.

Demosthenes (384 – 322 BCE), a Greek statesman and orator, wrote “We keep hetaerae for the sake of pleasure, female slaves for our daily care and wives to give us legitimate children and to be the guardians of our households.” For centuries, women throughout the world had no political, economic, or social power and every aspect of their lives was controlled by the all mighty men. This concept, which was engraved in societies for most of the known history, is depicted in many famous monuments, such as the Parthenon, Ara Pacis, and the sculpture of Aphrodite of Knidos, which I will be using for the purpose of this discussion. The purpose of this essay is not to discuss the different works of art, but to analyze their representation of female

European women lived in a patriarchal culture defined by their family structures and religious views. Even though men typically had more power, they were not often abusive of women as Anna Bijns would suggest with her writing, “Unyoked is Best! Happy the Woman without a Man.” Yet, at the same time, women were given no special privileges and weren’t allowed to be leaders in the church or in the law making parts of government.

This is an critical evaluative essay on Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant’s book Women's Life in Greece and Rome. For the final argumentative essay, I intend to compare the women in Greek Mythology and the women in Ancient Chinese folktales, therefore, I consider this book as one of my main foreign sources for the final argumentative essay. In this evaluation essay, I will mainly focus on two parts to illustrate why this book is suitable for my final essay. First, I will evaluate why the book is a reliable souce through following aspects: the author, the publisher and the audience. Moreover, I will also demonstrate the value of the book according to its valuable contents.