Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Format: kindle
ASIN: B001FA0K5O
Publish date: September 23rd 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
The use of Stanton, De Pizan, and Woolf to tie everything together is great. I would argue about her definition of well behaved as it applied to Judith Shakespeare, but still an interesting read.
This book felt a bit confused in parts, but I did really enjoy it. It just seemed like it was trying to be a few things at once and so the central argument about well-behaved women making history got a bit lost. I thought it was most effective in the discussion of the abolition and first wave femini...