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A 6 page paper which examines Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s work “A Midwife’s Tale” as it relates to society and women in society during the time of Martha Ballard. No additional sources cited.
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a woman who was a midwife and something of an herbalist. Her diary has stood the test of time and illuminates what life was like in early America. Most of
the time when we imagine women in early America we envision women who are nothing more than second to their husbands in a patriarchal world. But, through her diary we
can envision how women were just as important in their society as men because without the women and the work they did society would not have grown. And, in all
honesty, the men were well aware of the fact that women were important and necessary. They were not weak little things that merely took care of a house and tended
children, but vital parts of the development of the new land. In "A Midwifes Tale" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich presents Ballards diary while also commenting and illuminating various aspects of
Ballard, her time in history, and the other elements in the society that existed that were not included in Ballards diary. The following paper examines the book in summation, and
then analyzes what this book, and more importantly Ballards journal, can tell us about our past, the past of women in society, and gender conditions in general. Summary
Ulrichs works is primarily filled with Martha Ballards diary of her work. Her work is presented in a very unemotional and very straightforward manner, giving us the most basic events
that took place. It is clearly a diary that was perhaps intended to serve Martha as something of a journal for her own medicinal use, to keep track of patients
and to keep track of her successes and few failures. Through keeping such a record she could perhaps more easily see what she had done where. It was not intended
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