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1	The Creation of Patriarchy more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Black Women in White America: A Documentary History more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $3.63! new only from $10.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Grimké sisters from South Carolina; pioneers for woman's rights and abolition more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist The only Southern white women ever to become leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimke encountered many obstacles in pursuing their anti-slavery work, the least of which was their gender. Women's historian Gerda Lerner tells the compelling story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the anti-slavery and women's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| SVS
4	The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist Lerner 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 conciousness. Lerner argues that the millenia-old educational disadvantaging of women and their marginalization in the intellectual life of Western civilization retarded women's ability to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Why History Matters: Life and Thought more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist A collection of essays by a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Lerner is particularly interested in women's concerns, and formulates a theory of patriarchy as a social force that informs her understanding of the course and origins of modern history. see all copies from $4.30! new only from $8.68! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Fireweed: A Political Autobiography more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist This autobiography by a leftist feminist and historian tells of her birth in Vienna and her happy life before Nazism, and her departure from Europe and arrival in America. There, she lived a life politically contrary to the mainstream. The author was to become a founder of the National Organization of Women. see all copies from $4.44! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Living with History / Making Social Change more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist This is the life work of a leading historian. 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.Six of the ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $19.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Female Experience: An American Documentary more books like this by Gerda Lerner (Editor) add to wishlist Lerner offers an entirely new framework for the study of women's history in America which avoids the traditional chronological periods by which U.S. history is most often studied and instead groups sources according to the life cycle of women, their roles in a male-defined society, in the workplace, in politics, and finally in the contemporary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $30.70! \| SVS
11 view cover	Death of Ones Own more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke more books like this by Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimke add to wishlist Sarah Grimke, feminist activist and abolitionist, was one of the nineteenth century's most important 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 carry a powerful message for contemporary women. In the view of historians, Sarah ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke more books like this by Sarah Grimke, Gerda Lerner (Editor) add to wishlist The volume contains a collection of essays, documents and letters by Sarah Grimke, who together with her sister Angelina was one of the leading figures in the abolitionist and early feminist movements in the United States. Lerner provides a commentary on these pieces and provides an introduction that makes a strong case for Grimke as an important ... see all copies from $4.57! new only from $7.88! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Grimke Sistrs Frm S.C. more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Black Women in White America more books like this by Gerda Lerner (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	The woman in American history. more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches more books like this by Ellen C DuBois (Editor), Gerda Lerner (Foreword by), Elizabeth Cady Stanton add to wishlist Essays and primary documents that trace the relationship and political development of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $38.29!
18	Female Experience by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions
19	Teaching Women's History more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $4.79!
20	Liberal Education and the New Scholarship on Women: Issues and Constraints in Institutional Change more books like this by Gerda Lerner, Association of American Colleges, Florence Howe add to wishlist see all copies from $4.56!
21	The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery by Lerner Gerda add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00!
22	The Grimké sisters from South Carolina; rebels against slavery. more books like this by Gerda Lerner add to wishlist see all copies from $6.81! first editions
23	The Woman in American History by Lerner Gerda add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00!

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