Tells a story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of context. This memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made the author an activist for social justice before her academic career began. It presents her life in the context of the major historical events of the 20th century.
Gerda Lerner Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
30 april 1920 – 2 januari 2013
Gerda Lerner was een baanbrekende historicus die een sleutelrol speelde bij de oprichting van het vakgebied vrouwengeschiedenis. Haar levenslange werk legde de basis voor deze discipline, en ze was actief betrokken bij de ontwikkeling van de curricula. Haar inspanningen leidden tot de oprichting van wat wordt beschouwd als de eerste universitaire cursus over vrouwengeschiedenis ter wereld. Lerner liet zo een onuitwisbare indruk achter op de manier waarop we geschiedenis en de rol van vrouwen daarin begrijpen.
Why history matters : life and thought
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In "Why History Matters", Lerner sums up her thinking and research of the last 16 years, combining personal reminiscences with innovative theory that illuminates the importance of history and the vital role women have played in it. "Lerner has set a standard that few of her fellow scholars will ever match".--John Demos, "The New York Times Book Review".
Die Entstehung des feministischen Bewusstseins
Vom Mittelalter bis zur Ersten Frauenbewegung
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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
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This history of feminism sweeps over more than 1000 years of Western history, discussing such topics as the educational disadvantages faced by women, the role of women mystics, the concept of motherhood as a means of female bonding, creative literary women and the struggle for equal education.
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
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Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this “stunning collection of documents” ( ), African-American women speak of themselves, their lives, ambitions, and struggles from the colonial period to the present day. Theirs are stories of oppression and survival, of family and community self-help, of inspiring heroism and grass-roots organizational continuity in the face of racism, economic hardship, and, far too often, violence. Their vivid accounts, their strong and insistent voices, make for inspiring reading, enriching our understanding of the American past. “A very timely and powerful collection which gives emphasis to the magnificent role of Black women in the struggle of Black people to survive in this, the United States,”—Nathan Irvin Huggins “Gerda Lerner has collected . . . material which can change images that whites have had of Blacks, and possibly even those which we, as Blacks, have of ourselves,”—Maya Angelou
In this radically fresh view of the history of Western civilization, the author argues that male dominance is not natural or biological (and hence unchangeable), but a product of historical development.