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Summary: Still a Favorite after 10 years!!
Review: I was required to read this book in college. To note that I kept it, and have re-read it many times tells you what a service Ulrich has done with this material. Her organiztion of subject is beautifully done , with lots of biblical allegory's. IMO, one of the overlooked gems of modern writing. Every Person should read this book!
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Summary: A very thought-provoking book!
Review: This is an excellent book that will really make you rethink the history you've been taught. As another reviewer put it, half the population was left out of history! This book gives an account of the many roles puritan women played during this time and the immense impact they had on history. I enjoyed reading about the impact of sexuality and reproduction. Imagine your entire life being filled with getting pregnant, giving birth and lactating and then starting the cycle all over again. It just goes to show that women who aren't allowed control over their bodies aren't allowed any control in society. We can tie this to our own culture and the struggle for birth control and abortion rights. Anyways, a great read and I shall make my future sons and daughters read it so they know that women have a strong important place in history.
Rating:
Summary: A very thought-provoking book!
Review: This is an excellent book that will really make you rethink the history you've been taught. As another reviewer put it, half the population was left out of history! This book gives an account of the many roles puritan women played during this time and the immense impact they had on history. I enjoyed reading about the impact of sexuality and reproduction. Imagine your entire life being filled with getting pregnant, giving birth and lactating and then starting the cycle all over again. It just goes to show that women who aren't allowed control over their bodies aren't allowed any control in society. We can tie this to our own culture and the struggle for birth control and abortion rights. Anyways, a great read and I shall make my future sons and daughters read it so they know that women have a strong important place in history.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This was fabulous! The author clearly does NOT hate Puritans. She is objective, insightful. It's a treasure!
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This was fabulous! The author clearly does NOT hate Puritans. She is objective, insightful. It's a treasure!
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Summary: Dated but a great place to start.
Review: Ulrich succeeds in bringing to life the obscure and the mundane in a manner that intrigues and entertains. This is not a small feat given a subject that I thought would be somewhat dry. Rather than reading like a textbook, Ulrich targets the divisions of women's lives that Nancy Cott used, religion, sisterhood, domesticity, and marriage relations with a wit and wealth of facinating vingettes. The only real issue I have with the book (aside from becoming a little dated twenty years on) is the title. People seem to assume that a book entitled 'Good Wives' is a type of antiquated self help manual, rather than a record of the Good wives of 17th and 18th Century America.
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Summary: Dated but a great place to start.
Review: Ulrich succeeds in bringing to life the obscure and the mundane in a manner that intrigues and entertains. This is not a small feat given a subject that I thought would be somewhat dry. Rather than reading like a textbook, Ulrich targets the divisions of women's lives that Nancy Cott used, religion, sisterhood, domesticity, and marriage relations with a wit and wealth of facinating vingettes. The only real issue I have with the book (aside from becoming a little dated twenty years on) is the title. People seem to assume that a book entitled 'Good Wives' is a type of antiquated self help manual, rather than a record of the Good wives of 17th and 18th Century America.
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