What is the purpose of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s textual analysis of her slogan? What point is she trying to make with the analysis? How does her point relate to her purpose?
She’s talking about how women become more popular the more scandalous they are. But, it does bring up the comparison towards men, because this quote implies that men do not have to be scandalous in order to receive attention. But women do, so then you start to think, of why women need to go above and beyond what is normal self. Why do women need to be different and reach for craziness and misbehavior in order to be memorable? Perhaps people secretly like seeing a woman come up and crash?
Perhaps people enjoy making women as a target for their gossip? We may never know…show more content… If Laurel wouldn’t have wrote anything down then it would have been forever forgotten easily. The beginning of the essay is quite effective because it draws in the reader on what is going too happened, and why that student from California sent an email.
How does she relate this ambiguity to the broader issue of how history in general is written? Identify two examples she provides to illustrate the complexities of writing history
Usually history is written about men who do great things, conquer kingdoms, inventing some revolutionary or something drastic. But normally, you never read history being written about a queen, or a lady who did something great as well. I feel as if society nowadays has become to sucked into the concept of women, being housewives, cooks and not having any knowledge like an education.
Two examples Ulrich jots down in her essay is, first Mae West. She could never do a show without doing some sexual as in looking sexy; she had to do something so erotic in order to capture the fascination of the crowd. Where as in Rosa parks, a hero to the African American community. was looked at as a hero who she refused to go sit in the back of the bus. It was accidental and no one expected what she did to become such an inspiration too many
