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The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy
Gerda Lerner
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Description for The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy
Paperback. This history of feminism sweeps over more than 1000 years of Western history, discussing such topics as the educational disadvantages faced by women, the role of women mystics, the concept of motherhood as a means of female bonding, creative literary women and the struggle for equal education. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
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 conciousness. Lerner argues that the millenia-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 by generations of the teachings of family, church, and state. In examining feminist biblical criticism, Lerner illustrates her most important insight - the discontinuity of ... Read more
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 conciousness. Lerner argues that the millenia-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 by generations of the teachings of family, church, and state. In examining feminist biblical criticism, Lerner illustrates her most important insight - the discontinuity of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc Oxford
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195090604
SKU
V9780195090604
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About Gerda Lerner
Gerda Lerner has lectured and taught widely across the States on the subject of women's history and feminist consciouness. She has written six other books in women's history, including Women and History: Volume I - The Creation of Patriarchy (OUP, 1986). She is the winner of the Joan Kelly Prize in Women's History from the American Historical Association.
Reviews for The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy
`Powerful ... exemplary in several senses of the word. New York Times Book Review