The Books Briefing: Reimagining Womanhood
Writers who expanded the definitions of femininity: Your weekly guide to the best in books
by Tori Latham
Dec 04, 2020
1 minute
“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” a phrase coined by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1976, has since become a feminist rallying cry. One of the spheres in which women have been “misbehaving”—andby patriarchy and domestic isolation, how to claim their “submerged selves,” Stephanie Burt writes in .
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