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A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Ulrich
Category: Biography
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Category: Parenting
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-sh ...Show more
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