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Gerda Lerner on History

1920–2013 Austria

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Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

What is left to a Jew who refuses the religious community? Antisemitism and history. In short order I experienced plenty of both.

Why history matters (1997)

As I began to work on my research priorities, the absence of black women from history appeared to me as an urgent problem to be considered.

The majority finds its past (1979)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerda Lerner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.