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Was talking to a professor today about women's history et al and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich came up in conversation. Her work is on women's history, and is very meaty. I've read 2 of her four books:

  • A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
  • Good wives : image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750
  • Yards and gates : gender in Harvard and Radcliffe history
  • The age of homespun : objects and stories in the creation of an American myth

And am going to read the forth soon.
I think she would be very useful in a discussion of the construct of housework.

She's also written

  • Wheels, looms, and the gender division of labor in the eighteenth-century New England. By: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. William & Mary Quarterly, Jan98, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p3, 36p
  • Of Pens and Needles: Sources in Early American Women's History
    Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Journal of American History. Bloomington: Jun 1990. Vol. 77, Iss. 1; p. 200 (8 pages)
  • An American Fantasy. By: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Natural History, May2002, Vol. 111 Issue 4, p56, 8p, 6c, 2bw (about "The Age of Homespun")
  • Objects in the Classroom. By: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. OAH Magazine of History, Jul2003, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p57-59, 3p
  • A Pail of Cream. By: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Journal of American History, Jun2002, Vol. 89 Issue 1, p43-47 (about her career as a personal essayist, with a memorable encounter with another academic, who congratulated her on the acceptance of her essay, not her newborn, as "Babies don't count."

A book she reviewed looks interesting:
Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. By Jeanne Boydston. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.)

Another fascinating book is Never done : a history of American housework by Susan Strasser.

Date: 2006-09-15 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbpotts.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Adds to the list of things to read.

I love the 'babies don't count' line -- a writer friend and i once scandalized a local coffeeshop with a similiar sentiment. after all, it takes just nine months to 'hatch' a baby -- If I could only pop out a novel that quickly!

Date: 2006-09-18 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hakerh.livejournal.com
I've read three of her four books. She used to teach up here at UNH, and she might be coming back to do a guest lecture for one of my grad seminars in comparative history. :)

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