Gerda Lerner

Also known as Gerda Hedwig Lerner

Austrian-American women's history scholar (1920-2013)

Person · Open Library

Born: 30 April 1920
Died: 2 January 2013
Works: 36

Top works

男性支配の起源と歴史
Die Entstehung des feministischen Bewusstseins
A history of the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession-Conference Group on Women's History
نشأة النظام الأبوي
Die Entstehung des Patriarchats

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Argentina
Active from: 1957-06-08

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Discography

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Listeners: 3
Total plays: 106

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Connectivity Map: Using Gene-Expression Signatures to Connect Small Molecules, Genes, and Disease
· 2006 · cited 4,600x
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,396x
Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries
· 2018 · cited 4,220x
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE IN HUMAN RECIPIENTS OF MARROW FROM HL-A-MATCHED SIBLING DONOR,S
· 1974 · cited 3,073x
Proline-Catalyzed Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions
· 2000 · cited 2,720x

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Quotes

“Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.”
“Women have been kept from contributing to History-making, that is, the ordering and interpretation of the past of humankind. Since this process of meaning-giving is essential to the creation and perpetuation of civilization, we can see at once that women's marginality in this endeavor places us in a unique and segregate position. Women are the majority, yet we are structured into social institutions as though we were a minority.”
“What women must do, what feminists are now doing is to point to that stage, its sets, its props, its director, and its scriptwriter, as did the child in the fairy tale who discovered that the emperor was naked, and say, the basic inequality between us lies within this framework. And then they must tear it down.”
“The essay ("The Lady and the Mill Girl") was in part an outgrowth of my research in ante-bellum reform movements, in part a response to the a-historical analysis of women's place in society in a book like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and in some of the early pamphlet literature of the women's liberation movement.”

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Key facts

Born: Gerda Hedwig Kronstein , ( 1920-04-30 ) April 30, 1920, Vienna , Austria
Died: January 2, 2013 (2013-01-02) (aged 92), Madison , Wisconsin, U.S.
Education: The New School ( BA ), Columbia University ( MA , PhD )
Occupations: Women's history scholar and author
Employer s: Long Island University , Sarah Lawrence College , University of Wisconsin–Madison , Duke University , Columbia University
Organization s: Organization of American Historians , Congress of American Women , National Organization for Women
Notable work: Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (1972), The Creation of Patriarchy (1986), The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (1993), Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (2003)
Political party: Communist Party USA
Spouses: Bobby Jensen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1940 ) Carl Lerner ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; died 1973 )

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Wikidata facts

Official website: gerdalerner.com
Image: UW-Madison history professor Gerda Lerner.jpg

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date of birth: 1920-04-30
date of death: 2013-01-02
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name in native language: Gerda Lerner
birth name: Gerda Hedwig Kronstein

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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 to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980, she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.

Lerner was one of the founders of the academic field of women's history, known as the "godmother of women's history." In 1963, while still an undergraduate at the New School for Social Research, she taught "Great Women in American History", which is considered to be the first regular college course on women's history offered anywhere.