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What I was learning in graduate school did not so much leave out continents and their people as it left out half the human race, women.

— Gerda Lerner The majority finds its past (1979)

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We now know that man is not the measure of that which is human, but men and women are.

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

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

There was therefore no inevitability in the emergence of an all male priesthood.

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

Women had no history—so they were told; so they believed. Thus, ultimately, it was men's hegemony over the symbol system which most decisively disadvantaged women.

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

Most significant of all the impediments toward developing group consciousness for women was the absence of a tradition which would reaffirm the independence and autonomy of women at any period in the past.

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

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