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A Pioneer In Womens Studies And Long-Term Activist For Womens Issues, And A Past President Of The Organization Of American Historians, Gerda Lerner Is One Of The Founders And Foremost Scholars Of Womens History. The Creation Of Patriarchy, The First Book In Her Two-Volume Magnum Opus Women And History (1986) Received Wide Review Attention And Much Acclaim, Winning The Prestigious Joan Kelly Prize Of The American Historical Association For The Best Work On Womens History That Year. Ms Hailed The Book For Providing A Grand Historical Framework That Was Impossible Even To Imagine Before The Enlightenment About Womens Place In The World Provided By Her Earlier Work And That Of Other Feminist Scholars. New Directions For Women Said It May Well Be The Most Important Work In Feminist Theory To Appear In Our Generation.
Patriarchy Traced The Development Of The Ideas, Symbols, And Metaphors By Which Men Institutionalized Their Domination Of Women. Now, In The Creation Of Feminist Consciousness, The Eagerly Awaited Concluding Volume Of Women And History, Lerner Documents The Twelve-Hundred-Year Struggle Of Women To Free Their Minds From Patriarchal Thought, To Create Womens History, And To Achieve A Feminist Consciousness. Lerner Argues That The Millenia-Old Educational Disadvantaging Of Women And Their Marginalization In The Intellectual Life Of Western Civilization Retarded Womens Ability To Comprehend Their Condition And To Define Their Needs As A Group. She Shows The Devastating Impact On Womens Psychology Of Notions Of Their Innate Mental Inferiority, Reinforced Generation After Generation By The Teachings Of Family, Church, And State. Through Examining Over A Thousand Years Of Feminist Biblical Criticism, Lerner Illustrates Her Most Important Insight--The Discontinuity Of Womens History. The Generation To Generation Transmission Of Knowledge On Which The Building Of Civilization Rests Did Not Work For Women. Because They Did Not Know Their History, Each Generation Of Women Used Their Energies And Talents Reinventing Ideas That Other Women Had Already Defined--This Greatly Delayed The Development Of Womens Consciousness Of Themselves As Members Of A Group. In A Series Of Fascinating Portraits Of Individual Women Who Resisted Patriarchal Indoctrination, Lerner Discusses Women Mystics Such As Hildegard Of Bingen, Julian Of Norwich And Later Protestant Mystics, And Brings To Life The Many Women Of Great Literary Talent, From Christine De Pisan To Louise Labe To Emily Dickinson, Who Simply Bypassed Patriarchal Thought And Created Alternate Worlds For Themselves.
In Its Emphasis On The Force Of Ideas, The Struggle Of Women For Inclusion In The Concept Of The Divine, The Repeated Attempts By Women To Form Supportive Networks, And Its Analysis Of The Preconditions For The Formation Of Political Theories Of Liberation, This Brilliant Work Charts New Ground For Historical Studies, The History Of Ideas, And Feminist Theory.
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A Deep Dive into Feminism's Roots
I bought this book for my women's studies class, and it really opened my eyes to the history of feminist thought. The way it traces the evolution from the Middle Ages to 1870 is fascinating. It's a bit dense, but if you're into history and feminism, it's worth the read!
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Essential Reading for Feminist Historians
As a graduate student focusing on women's history, this book is essential for understanding feminist consciousness development. The details from the Middle Ages to 1870 are thorough. It’s going to be a critical resource for my thesis!
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Anjali Patel
Essential Reading for Feminist Historians
As a graduate student focusing on women's history, this book is essential for understanding feminist consciousness development. The details from the Middle Ages to 1870 are thorough. It’s going to be a critical resource for my thesis!
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This book is a treasure trove of information about women's history! I loved how it connects feminist consciousness through centuries. It’s a must-have for anyone interested in gender studies or history. Highly engaging!
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