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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809701603321

Autore

Lerner Gerda <1920->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

979-88-9313-192-5

1-4696-0592-9

0-8078-8786-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

305.4071/1073

305.4071173

Soggetti

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

Women college teachers - United States

Feminism and higher education - United States

Social change - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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