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Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy (Women & History)
Oxford University Press Inc, USA 17/11/1994 0195090608 / 9780195090604 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.This volume is a densely researched, accessible and engrossing conclusion to Lerner's two-volume study Women in History. In The Creation of the Patriarchy (1986), she traced the slippery progress of women in ancient Near Eastern societies into a subordinate position but the Sisyphean journey back is no less painful. Analyzing European, American and African American history, Lerner begins with the ways in which women sought "self-authorization": as mystics, speaking with the voice of God; as mothers, educators and nurturers of future generations, or as creators. Lerner then moves on to show how self-authorization combined with education and female networks helped foster feminist consciousness. This is no linear tale, however. As Lerner notes, men's contributions became the common heritage while "women's creations sank soundlessly into the sea, leaving barely a ripple, and succeeding generations of women were left to cover the same ground others had already covered before them." Lerner, Robinson-Edwards professor of history emerita at the University of Wisconsin, helped pioneer the study of women and history and remains preeminent in the field. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ... With this book, Lerner (history, Univ. of Wisconsin) completes her study Women in History. In the initial volume ( The Creation of Patriarchy , LJ 7/86), Lerner examined the development of female subordination as a historical phenomenon; in this work, she analyzes the conditions necessary to contest the idea of patriarchy. She places educational disadvantage at the center of continuing female subjugation, descibing women's devotion to mysticism and motherhood and offering illustrations of those few extraordinary women who transcended constraints. But feminist consciousness, Lerner argues, depended upon both economic independence and the development of a written history; these conditions finally emerged in the 19th century. Based on wide-ranging research and written with a scholarly audience in mind, Lerner's lively and provocative essay will nevertheless attract a broad readership. Suitable for large public libraries and all academic and research collections. - Cynthia Harrison, Federal Judicial Ctr., Washington, D.C. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gerda Lerner; Sarah Moore Grimke The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke
Oxford University Press 1998-01 0195106059 / 9780195106053 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Sarah Grimke, feminist activist and abolitionist, was one of the nineteenth century's most prescient feminist thinkers. She was the first American woman to write a coherent feminist argument, and her writings and work championing the emancipation of woman still remain a powerful influence on the rise of feminist consciousness. However, Sarah Grimke has long been given short shrift as a woman of no real historical significance aside from the her association with her sister, abolitionist Angelina Grimke. In The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke, Gerda Lerner places Sarah's work in the context of the long history of feminist thought, showing that she was indeed a significant feminist figure and clearly ahead of her time. Focusing on Sarah's essays and letters to journals, newspapers, and contemporaries, and including illuminating articles by Lerner herself, Sarah is finally given full credit for her contributions to the feminist and abolitionist movements in pre-Civil War America. As Lerner explains, "That Sarah's work came to us in snippets and fragments, handwritten on paper cut out of a notebook, embedded in the manuscript collection of her brother-in-law, unnoticed and forgotten for over a hundred years is typical of what happened to the intellectual work of women," not indicative of her accomplishments as a major feminist thinker. ... The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke not only sheds light on Sarah Grimke as feminist thinker, theorist, and activist, it powerfully accents Gerda Lerner's pioneering efforts in the universal recognition of the feminist consciousness. ... About the Author... Gerda Lerner, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of numerous books, including Why History Matters and The Creation of Feminist Consciousness.
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