Slog - Comments on Most Dangerous Women: A Children's Play http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/most_dangerous_women_a_childrens_play Don't get me wrong. I'm all for, big, tough ladies molding history with their strong, womanly hands, but every time I hear those old '70s hosannas to "dangerous women" I don't think of Emma Goldman, I think of Squeaky from the Mason Family and Ilse Koch and about how Eleanor Roosevelt somehow managed to be a historical bad-ass while maintaining the ability to say "please" and "thank you" and about how the whole dangerous-woman-are-great! spin is patronizing anyway—and it is for those deeply feminist reasons that whenever I hear this: Well-behaved women rarely make history. —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich* I want... Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:32:49 -0800 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:28:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Seth And did you further know that she wrote the extremely absorbing 1991 Pulitzer Prize and pretty much every other prize winning book ""A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812."

Because you should read that book, it is bomb.

]]> Seth http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/most_dangerous_women_a_childrens_play#c667044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/most_dangerous_women_a_childrens_play#c667044 History Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:28:06 -0800