Living with history--making social change / Gerda Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Gerda, 1920-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Women.

Women college teachers--United States.

Women college teachers.

Feminism and higher education--United States.

Feminism and higher education.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Lerner, Gerda, 1920-.

Lerner, Gerda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 twelve essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir

Contents:

A life of learning

Women among the professors of history : the story of a process of transformation

The M.A. program in women's history at Sarah Lawrence College

The meaning of Seneca Falls

Midwestern leaders of the modern women's movement

Women in world history

Taming the monster : workshop on the construction of deviant out-groups

Autobiography, biography, memory, and the truth

The historian and the writer

Holistic history : challenges and possibilities

Transformational feminism (an interview)

Reflections on aging.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908793-1-8

979-88-9313-192-5

1-4696-0592-9

0-8078-8786-2

OCLC:

405108800