Gerda Lerner
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Austrian-American women's history scholar
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- PhD History Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.
Gerda Lerner's Published Works
Published Works
- The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) (1208)
- Black Women in White America : A Documentary History (1972) (299)
- The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History (1980) (274)
- The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy (1994) (220)
- Placing Women in History: Definitions and Challenges (1975) (166)
- The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson (1969) (140)
- Black women in white America (1972) (104)
- The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia (1986) (82)
- Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium (1980) (76)
- Early Community Work of Black Club Women (1974) (67)
- Why History Matters: Life and Thought (1997) (62)
- The Female experience : an American documentary (1977) (62)
- The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition (1967) (55)
- Women and slavery (1983) (47)
- Women and the American Labor Movement from Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I (1979) (39)
- Reconceptualizing Differences Among Women (2010) (32)
- New Approaches to the Study of Women in American History (1969) (32)
- Considering the State of U.S. Women's History (2003) (24)
- The Woman In American History (1971) (22)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings & Speeches (1987) (19)
- U.S. Women's History: Past, Present, and Future (2004) (19)
- The Necessity of History and the Professional Historian (1982) (19)
- A Death of One's Own (1978) (18)
- Corporatizing Higher Education (2008) (17)
- Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (2002) (15)
- The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke (1998) (14)
- Living with History / Making Social Change (2009) (13)
- Teaching Women's History (1981) (10)
- Reply to Responses (2004) (8)
- The Grimké Sisters and the Struggle Against Race Prejudice (1963) (7)
- Women's Rights and American Feminism. (1971) (6)
- Women among the Professors of History (2009) (4)
- Sarah M. Grimké's "Sisters of Charity" (1975) (4)
- A Perspective from European and U.S. Women's History: Comment on "Confronting Continuity" (2010) (4)
- IN CONTEMPORARY U. (1993) (3)
- Jacqueline Jones. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic. 1985. Pp. xiii, 432. $25.95 (1986) (3)
- The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen- Seventy. (1993) (3)
- Where Biographers Fear to Tread (1987) (3)
- Time and Social Structure : a Yugoslav Case Study (2017) (3)
- To Think Ourselves Free (1990) (2)
- In Search of a Usable Past (1993) (2)
- Black and White Women in Interaction and Confrontation (1977) (2)
- Gender, Class, Race, and Ethnicity, Social Construction of (2001) (2)
- A View from the Women's Side (1989) (2)
- In the Grand Manner (1987) (2)
- Midwestern Leaders of the Modern Women's Movement (2009) (2)
- Women and Equality@@@Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture. (1978) (1)
- In Defense of Sarah Lawrence College (1977) (1)
- The Meaning of Seneca Falls (2009) (1)
- Bibliography in the history of American women (1978) (1)
- Holistic History Challenges and Possibilities (2009) (1)
- Casting a Cold Eye (1998) (0)
- Beverley Southgate. What Is History For? New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xiii, 214. Cloth $70.00, paper $22.95 (2007) (0)
- How the Historical Profession Became a Male Preserve (1999) (0)
- A Transformational Feminism (2019) (0)
- Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in Iowa. By Louise R. Noun. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1969. xv + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendixes, bibliographies, and index. $8.75.) (1970) (0)
- The Importance of History and the Role of the Teacher. (1986) (0)
- Reflections on Aging (2009) (0)
- Taming the Monster (2009) (0)
- Scholarship in women's history : rediscovered and new (1994) (0)
- The Woman Movement: Feminism in the United States and England. By William L. O'Neill. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969. x + 208 pp. Notes, note on sources, and index. $5.75.) (1970) (0)
- The Making of a Historian (2002) (0)
- Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. Vol. 2: Index. Andrea Hinding (1981) (0)
- Education note: Sarah lawrence college women's studies program (1973) (0)
- MANIPULATING CLAN OR ETHNIC POLITICAL IDENTITY FOR POWER Introduction (2013) (0)
- Comment on Lerner's "Sarah M. Grimké's 'Sisters of Charity'" (1985) (0)
- Women in World History (2009) (0)
- Bound with Them in Chains: A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement. By Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1972. xvii + 334 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $12.50.) (1974) (0)
- The M.A. Program in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College (2009) (0)
- Autobiography, Biography, Memory, and the Truth (2009) (0)
- The Slavery of Sex: Feminist-Abolitionists in America. By Blanche Glassman Hersh. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. xi + 280 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $14.50.) (1980) (0)
- Review Essay : Motherhood in Historical Perspective (1978) (0)
- U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY (2004) (0)
- Vern L. Bullough, with the assistance of Bonnie Bullough. The Subordinate Sex: A History of Attitudes toward Women. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1973. Pp. viii, 375. $10.95 (1974) (0)
- The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930. By Anne Firor Scott. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. xv + 247 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $5.95.) (1971) (0)
- He Historian and the Writer (2009) (0)
- MANIPULATING CLAN OR ETHNIC POLITICAL IDE NTITY FOR POWER (2013) (0)
- Book Review:The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 Nancy F. Cott (1979) (0)
- Transformational Feminism (An Interview) (2009) (0)
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