Gerda lerner feminist criticism

A pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History.

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“Lerner's work represents a significant step forward in the development of the feminist critique of the patriarchal edifice of knowledge and the writing of.

Gerda Lerner was a historian of remarkable eloquence, insight, and courage, an advocate of the importance of history to the pursuit of social justice.

This survey of biblical criticism allows Lerner to illustrate her most important insight--the discontinuity of women's history.

She argues male dominance is a cultural construct rooted in controlling women's sexuality.

The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume Women and History Series (1986) received wide review attention and much acclaim, winning the prestigious Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association for the best work on Women's History that year.

Ms. hailed the book for providing "a grand historical framework that was impossible even to imagine before the enlightenment about women's 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 wom