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    Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition...
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  • "[citation needed] Over the course of her career, feminist historian Gerda Lerner focuses on patriarchal power and the history of the subordination of...
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  • The Creation of Patriarchy is a non-fiction book written by Gerda Lerner in 1986 as an explanation for the origins of misogyny in ancient Mesopotamia and...
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  • Dutch swimmer Gerda Lerner (1920–2013), Austrian-born American historian and author Gerda Lundequist (1871–1959), Swedish stage actress Gerda Madsen (1902–1986)...
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  • the color line. The film was directed by Carl Lerner and the screenplay was written by Carl and Gerda Lerner. The film stars James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke...
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  • businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930) 2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920) 2013 – Teresa...
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  • Mr. Potato Head Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American scholar, a founder of the fields of women and African American history Hayyim Zvi Lerner (1815–1889), Russian...
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  • in Sonoma County, California in 1978 was subsequently championed by Gerda Lerner and the National Women's History Alliance to be recognized as a national...
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    Women's Studies department along with Joan Kelly, Sherry Ortner, and Gerda Lerner. The program was one of the earliest of its kind, and offered the first...
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  • research has not yet found a specific "initiating event". Historian Gerda Lerner asserts in her 1986 book The Creation of Patriarchy that there was no...
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    Wellhausen and Theodor Nöldeke argued for its etymological relevance. Gerda Lerner postulates that the story of Eve's creation from Adam's rib may have...
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  • Even this was self-published. In other areas of writing, historian Gerda Lerner, born in 1920, published her first book, The Grimke Sisters from South...
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    In her biography The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes: "It never occurred to [Angelina] that she should abide by the...
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  • special attention to a radical change in gender relations. Historian Gerda Lerner details it in her Oxford University book The Creation of Patriarchy....
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  • Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver and pilot (d. 1994) 1920 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (d. 2013) 1920...
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    Notable UNC Press authors include historians such as John Hope Franklin, Gerda Lerner, Gordon Wood, Mary Kelley, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Nell Irvin Painter, Glenda...
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    along with that of the principal dead person. In one such grave, as Gerda Lerner wrote on page 60 of her book The Creation of Patriarchy: The human sacrifices...
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  • 1956) April 30 Diet Eman, Dutch author and resistance worker (d. 2019) Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and woman's history author (d. 2013) Captain...
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    and her Canaanite and Akkadian Cognates, Ugarit-Forschungen 18, 1986 Gerda Lerner, The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia, Signs 11, 1986 Pirenne-Delforge...
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    - Giving power to moms-to-be". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2015-10-13. Lerner, Gerda (1977-01-01). The Female experience: an American documentary. Indianapolis:...
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    slavery. As Gerda Lerner says, the Grimkés understood their actions' great impact. "In working for the liberation of the slave," Lerner writes, "Sarah...
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  • that the two fights against racism and sexism could not be separated. Gerda Lerner wrote that black women demonstrated they too were fully capable of fighting...
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  • preservationists, archivists, and educators of the early twentieth century. Gerda Lerner published a significant document reader, Black Women in White America...
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    history profession until the 1960s, when the first breakthroughs came. Gerda Lerner in 1963 offered the first regular college course in women's history....
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    Schlesinger, Jr. (1996), Richard N. Current (1998), Bernard Bailyn (2000), Gerda Lerner (2002), David Brion Davis (2004), and David Herbert Donald (2006). The...
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    begin to receive the attention that its importance demands." Historian Gerda Lerner has pointed out that religious ideas provided a fundamental source for...
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  • to Kelly becoming more interested in women's history. Together with Gerda Lerner, Kelly founded the first master's program in women's history at Sarah...
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    accompanied warfare in virtually every known historical era. Women's historian Gerda Lerner writes, The practice of raping the women of a conquered group has remained...
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  • daughters as the "initiators and perpetrators of the incestuous 'rape'." Gerda Lerner (1986) has suggested that because the Hebrew Bible takes for granted...
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    Travel Grants Richard W. Leopold Prize Lerner–Scott Dissertation Prize – established in 1992 and named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott Lawrence W. Levine...
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