Gerda Lerner (1920–2013)
Auteur de The Creation of Patriarchy
A propos de l'auteur
Gerda Lerner, Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is also a past president of the Organization of American Historians and a founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW), as well as one of the creators of Women's History Month
Crédit image: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Séries
Œuvres de Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy (1993) 365 exemplaires
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (1972) — Directeur de publication — 276 exemplaires
The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition (1967) 211 exemplaires
A Life of Learning 1 exemplaire
The lady and the mill girl: Changes in the status of women in the age of Jackson (1973) 1 exemplaire
Patriotism and the female sex 1 exemplaire
Ein eigener Tod. Der Schlüssel zum Leben 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (1982) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1,005 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Lerner, Gerda Hedwig Kronstein
- Date de naissance
- 1920-04-30
- Date de décès
- 2013-01-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Austria (birth)
USA (naturalization) - Lieu de naissance
- Vienna, Austria
- Lieu du décès
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Vienna, Austria
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Études
- Columbia University (Ph.D.)
- Professions
- Historian
feminist
novelist
author
screenwriter - Relations
- Lerner, Carl (husband)
Merriam, Eve (co-writer) - Organisations
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
National Organization for Women
Communist Party - Prix et distinctions
- Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2002)
- Courte biographie
- Gerda Kronstein was born in Vienna to an affluent Austrian Jewish family. Her father owned a large pharmacy, and her mother, a free spirit at heart, struggled unsuccessfully to reconcile her desire to be an artist with her responsibilities as a wife and mother. This struggle made a marked impression on her daughter. In 1938, after Germany annexed Austria, Gerda went to jail for several weeks for her role in the resistance movement. Her father fled to Liechtenstein, but the Nazis arrested Gerda and her mother to force his return. Five weeks later, after her father paid a major bribe, Gerda and her mother were allowed to leave the country. Gerda made her way to the USA, settling in New York City, where she worked in menial jobs and trained at Sydenham Hospital in Harlem as an X-ray technician. In 1941, she married Carl Lerner, a theater director. The couple moved to Hollywood, where he apprenticed as a film editor. in 1946. Gerda collaborated with poet Eve Merriam on a musical, The Singing of Women. She wrote a novel, No Farewell, which was published in 1955. The Lerners were both Communists and became involved in trade unionism and civil rights. Because of his politics, Gerda's husband found it increasingly hard to find work in Hollywood, so in 1949 the couple returned to New York, where he became a successful film editor, working on movies such as "Twelve Angry Men" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight." In 1964, they collaborated on the film adaptation of the book "Black Like Me." Gerda Lerner returned to school in her 40s, earning a B.A. from the New School for Social Research in 1963, and then an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation became her first nonfiction book, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery (1967). In 1966, Dr. Lerner became a founding member of the National Organization for Women. In 1968 she began teaching history at Sarah Lawrence College. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. Lerner published numerous books and articles that helped further the recognition of women's history as a legitimate field of study. At Sarah Lawrence, Dr. Lerner created the first graduate degree program (master's degree) in women’s history in the USA. In 1980, she moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she created the nation's first Ph.D. program in women's history. She retired from the University of Wisconsin and was named professor emerita in 1991. The Lerner-Scott Prize, named in honor of her and Anne Firor Scott, is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation on women’s history in the USA.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 1,939
- Popularité
- #13,269
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 57
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 5