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HomeAnnouncementsGerda Lerner: Founder of Women’s Studies Movement Dies at 92
Some people imprint you for life. Gerda Lerner was one of those people. As 2013 dawns, Women’s Studies and Women’s History are standard, credible, degree-producing disciplines. But when I was in college, Gerda Lerner was an almost mythic creature, doing something that no one else had done before: She was teaching women’s history. And at one of the premier colleges in the country, Sarah Lawrence, not someone’s living room in a little private salon.
Whoever heard of such a thing?
Lerner died Jan. 2 in Madison, Wisconsin. She was 92. She is considered one of the founders of Women’s Studies, having created the first graduate program in women’s studies in the country and providing the template for other programs across the U.S. over the years. Lerner also authored more than a dozen pivotal works of women’s history, including Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, The Woman in American History, The Creation of Patriarchy and The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. She had a phenomenal influence on the teaching of history and on the inclusion of women–and women of color and lesbians–in historical texts.
I met Lerner when I was in college. I had been sent by my un
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5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History
Witham, Nick. "5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History". Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, pp. 133-162. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826981-006
Witham, N. (2023). 5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History. In Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America (pp. 133-162). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826981-006
Witham, N. 2023. 5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History. Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 133-162. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826981-006
Witham, Nick. "5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History" In Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America, 133-162. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226826981-006
Witham N. 5. Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History. In: Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America. Chicago: University of
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Episodes 3 & 4: Representation Creation diagram Patriarchy, inured to Gerda Lerner
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