Product Description: This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field...read more

Gerda Lerner's search to extract meaning from death's violent mystery glows with the humanist energy of an honest yet consoling and inspiring vision.-Helen Yglesias New York Times Book Review"A book about courage, written without heroics or sentimentality This is a story out of ordinary life, about love and endurance and loyalty."-Elizabeth Janeway, author"This is a deeply moving and exquisitely sensitive account."-Daniel Schorr, journalist and author"A great book unflinchingly revelatory of its writer, a man, a marriage-reflective of the passionate richness the last passage of life can have."-Honor Moore, author and poet"In her deeply moving document, Lerner copes with the moral questions of the patient's right to know, his right to choose, his right to die Though intensely personal, Lerner's story speaks with a universal quality."-Wilma Salisbury, Cleveland Plain Dealer"This book gives one hope-that marriage, in the very real sense of the word, is still possible."-Eleanor Perry, screenwriter

In twelve essays addressing both broad feminist issues and specific historical subjects, Lerner calls for the creation of a truly universal history equally concerned with men, women, and the demise of patriarchy

The only Southern white women ever to become leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké encountered many obstacles and leapt many hurdles in pursuing their anti-slavery work. Their greatest accomplishment was overcoming the ubiquitous prejudices of society in regard to women. Indeed, they were the first women to take to the public platform and the first to assert women's rights. In The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, tells the compelling history of these determined sisters and the inroads they made for women and blacks alike. From their wealthy upbringing in Charleston, South Carolina, the societal restraints that kept them from higher education, and their utter contempt of slavery, to their conversion to the Quaker religion, and monumental achievements at the podium and with the pen, Lerner illuminates the lasting contributions of the Grimké sisters, as well as the important role played by women in the anti-slavery movement.

The historian describes her life, including her childhood in Austria, her imprisonment by the Nazis, her escape to America, and her political life in the United States as a member of the Communist Party.

Looks at the philosophical foundations for the teaching of history, and shares the teaching experiences of the author.

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Documents the twelve-hundred-year struggle of women to free their minds from patriarchal thought, to create women's history, and to achieve a feminist consciousness (view table of contents)

Compiles letters, articles, and essays on the racial and sexual oppression of Black women in America and the ways in which they have managed to survive in a white-dominated society

Product Description: While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded from the writing of that history. Most of what we know of the past experience of women comes to us largely through the distorting lens of men's reflections and observations...read more

A radical reinterpretation of Western civilization argues that male dominance has resulted from, and can be ended by, historical process, and identifies key developments

Product Description: Book by Lerner, Gerda

Product Description: Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 404 pages; Description: x, 404 p. Subjects: Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879. Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873.