Since the 1960s, she has been a trailblazer in establishing the field of women's history as an academic discipline she may have taught the first postwar college class on women's history, and her books have become important texts that have provided her successors with contextual maps for uncharted territory. The name Gerda Lerner may not possess the recognition factor of Gloria Steinem or Barbara Tuchman, but her work as a feminist historian is both unparalleled and equally significant. No Farewell (1955) The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery (1967) The Woman in American History (1971) Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (1972) Women Are History: A Bibliography in the History of American Women (1975, revised ed., 1986) A Death of One's Own (1978) Women and History, Volume 1: The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Women and History, Volume 2: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 ( Oxford University Press, 1993) Why History Matters ( Oxford University Press, 1997).
(1972) established first doctoral program in same field (c.
Born Gerda Kronstein on April 30, 1920, in Vienna, Austria daughter of Robert Kronstein and Ilona (Neumann) Kronstein New School for Social Research, B.A., 1963 Columbia University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1966 married Carl Lerner, in 1941 (died 1973) children: Stephanie Lerner Daniel Lerner.Īrrived in the United States (1939) published first book (1955) created first women's history department in U.S. Influential American historian who is considered responsible for the establishment of women's history as a recognized academic field.
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