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050 00 $aHQ1121$b.L47 1986 vol. 2
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100 1 $aLerner, Gerda,$d1920-2013.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50050418
245 14 $aThe creation of feminist consciousness :$bfrom the Middle Ages to eighteen-seventy /$cGerda Lerner.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $axii, 395 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aWomen and history ;$vv. 2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 331-376) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Educational Disadvantaging of Women -- 3. Self-authorization -- 4. The Way of the Mystics-1 -- 5. The Way of the Mystics-2 -- 6. Authorization Through Motherhood -- 7. One Thousand Years of Feminist Bible Criticism -- 8. Authorization Through Creativity -- 9. The Right to Learn, the Right to Teach, the Right to Define -- 10. Female Clusters, Female Networks, Social Spaces -- 11. The Search for Women's History -- 12. Conclusion.
520 $aA pioneer in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is one of the founders and foremost scholars of Women's History. The Creation of Patriarchy, the first book in her two-volume Women and History Series (1986) received wide review attention and much acclaim, winning the prestigious Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association for the best work on Women's History that year. Ms. hailed the book for providing "a grand historical framework that was impossible even to imagine before the enlightenment about women's place in the world provided by her earlier work and that of other feminist scholars." New Directions for Women said it "may well be the most important work in feminist theory to appear in our generation.".
520 8 $aPatriarchy traced the development of the ideas, symbols, and metaphors by which men institutionalized their domination of women. Now, in The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, the eagerly awaited concluding volume of the Women and History Series, Lerner documents the twelve-hundred-year struggle of women to free their minds from patriarchal thought, to create Women's History, and to achieve a feminist consciousness. Lerner argues that the millennia-old educational disadvantaging of women and their marginalization in the intellectual life of Western civilization retarded women's ability to comprehend their condition and to define their needs as a group. She shows the devastating impact on women's psychology of notions of their innate mental inferiority, reinforced generation after generation by the teachings of family, church, and state.
520 8 $aThrough examining over a thousand years of feminist biblical criticism, Lerner illustrates her most important insight - the discontinuity of Women's History. The generation to generation transmission of knowledge on which the building of civilization rests did not work for women. Because they did not know its history, each generation of women used their energies and talents reinventing ideas that other women had already defined - this greatly delayed the development of women's consciousness of themselves as members of a group. In a series of fascinating portraits of individual women who resisted patriarchal indoctrination, Lerner discusses women mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and later Protestant mystics, and brings to life the many women of great literary talent, from Christine de Pisan to Louise Labe to Emily Dickinson, who simply bypassed patriarchal thought and created alternate worlds for themselves
520 8 $a. In its emphasis on the force of ideas, the struggle of women for inclusion in the concept of the Divine, the repeated attempts by women to form supportive networks, and its analysis of the preconditions for the formation of political theories of liberation, this brilliant work charts new ground for historical studies, the history of ideas, and feminist theory.
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650 0 $aFeminist theory$xHistory.
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650 0 $aCivilization, Western$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117700
800 1 $aLerner, Gerda,$d1920-2013.$tWomen and history ;$vv. 2.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84722473
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