Living with history--making social change [[electronic resource] /] / Gerda Lerner

• Autore: Lerner Gerda <1920-2013.>
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4071/1073
• Soggetto topico: Women - History - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States; Women college teachers - United States; Feminism and higher education - United States; Social change - United States
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Living with history--making social change
• ISBN: 1-4696-0592-9; 0-8078-8786-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777959703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II