Ulrich, Laurel

A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
19 editions published between 1990 and 1999 in English and held by 2,652 libraries worldwide
Drawing 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 Ulrich ( Book )
5 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 1,694 libraries worldwide
"They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which women achieved power and influence, to the writings of nineteenth-century suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and twentieth-century novelist Virginia Woolf. She contrasts Woolf's imagined story about Shakespeare's sister with biographies of actual women who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. She uses daybook illustrations to look at women who weren't trying to make history, but did. Throughout, she shows how feminist historians, by challenging traditional accounts of both men's and women's histories, have stimulated more vibrant and better-documented accounts of the past.--From publisher description.

Good wives : image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
18 editions published between 1982 and 1991 in English and held by 1,590 libraries worldwide
Examines the lives of women in northern New England in the century from 1650 to 1750, discussing issues of housekeeping, childbearing, churchgoing, and other triumphs and tragedies of everyday life.

The age of homespun : objects and stories in the creation of an American myth by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 1,339 libraries worldwide
Publisher's description: Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth--and of history--in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods--Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy-noddy, bed coverings, silk embroidery, a pocketbook, a linen tablecloth, a coverlet and a rose blanket, and an unfinished stocking--provide the key to a transformed understanding of cultural encounter, frontier war, Revolutionary politics, international commerce, and early industrialization in America. We discover how ideas about cloth and clothing affected relations between English settlers and their Algonkian neighbors. We see how an English production system based on a clear division of labor--men doing the weaving and women the spinning--broke down in the colonial setting, becoming first marginalized, then feminized, then politicized, and how the new system both prepared the way for and was sustained by machine-powered spinning. Pulling these divergent threads together into a rich and revealing tapestry of--the age of homespun--Ulrich demonstrates how ordinary objects reveal larger economic and social structures, and, in particular, how early Americans and their descendants made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert identities, shape relationships, and create history.

A midwife's tale ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in English and held by 624 libraries worldwide
The life of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution.

Yards and gates : gender in Harvard and Radcliffe history ( Book )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 230 libraries worldwide

All God's critters got a place in the choir by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide

Rachel's death : how memory challenges history by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide

A beginner's Boston by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
4 editions published between 1970 and 1973 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide

Good wives a study in role definition in northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Ulrich ( Book )
5 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide