#Gerda Lerner

“The fact is that women do have a history, that they have participated in making history, but we have not—until very recently—recognized that.” Historian, educator and author Gerda Lerner on how women have been excluded from historical narratives, from an interview with Jeffrey Mishlove from his program Thinking Allowed published in 2010. Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) is known as the “godmother of women’s history” for her efforts to reshape history as an academic discipline and public-facing field. She arrived in the US in 1939 after her family fled Austria. She worked a range of jobs while also writing poetry and fiction and being active in political groups. Her first book, the novel No Farewell, was published in 1955. She enrolled at the New School for Social Research, where she taught (while still an undergrad) what is considered the first regular course on women’s history. As a graduate student, she wrote her dissertation on abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimké against the wishes of her advisors. In her first academic job at Sarah Lawrence she established the Master of Arts Program in Women’s History; she went on to found the first PhD program on women’s history at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. Her publications—including The Creation of Patriarchy (1986), The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to 1870 (1993), and edited volumes Black Women in White America (1973) and The Female Experience (1976)— furthered her efforts to establish women’s history as an accepted field of academic study. In 1979, Gerda Lerner chaired The Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where organizers decided to advocate for a “National Women’s History Week,” inspired by successful efforts to celebrate Women’s History Week in Sonoma County, CA. This work led to President Jimmy Carter issuing the first Presidential Proclamation in 1980 declaring the Week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. Things grew from there, with Women’s History Month becoming adopted nationwide and internationally.

She fled Nazi Austria, rebuilt her life in America, and then did something revolutionary—she made women’s history impossible to ignore. Gerda Lerner didn’t just write about the past; she reshaped how it’s taught, founding the first graduate programs in women’s history and helping launch National Women’s History Month. Because of her, women are no longer footnotes. #WomensHistory #GerdaLerner #FeministScholar #HistoryMatters #WomensRights

Gerda Lerner é a autora dos meses de janeiro e fevereiro do nosso Grupo de Leitura Coletiva - Juntas! Cada vez que escuto ou leio a Gerda, meu coração inflama. ❤️🔥 Lembrando que nosso encontro para conversar sobre "A criação do patriarcado" está confirmadíssimo na sexta-feira, hein?! Como está o andamento da leitura por aí? 👀 #gerdalerner #acriaçãodopatriarcado #grupodeleitura

📌Esneklik derken söylenmek istenen şu: yeni duruma uyum sağlama yeteneği. Yani biz geçmişe mi takılıp kaldık, yoksa yeni durum her ne olursa olsun, bir süre sonra ona uyum sağlayıp, yola devam mı ettik? Tabi yeni durum muhtemelen zor bir durum yahut büyük bir değişim olabilir. ➡️Boşanma gibi, ➡️Kayıplar gibi, ➡️İşimizle ilgili bizim kontrolümüz dışındaki gelişmeler gibi.. Geçmişe takılıp kaldıysan bolca; “Niye bu oldu? Keşke olmasaydı, eski halim iyiydi” diye döner durursun. Esneksen ➡️ “Evet hayatımda çok şey değişiyor ve bu kolay değil ama bu yeni durumla nasıl yaşayabilirim?” diye yollar ararsın. Ünlü sözde olduğu gibi “En güçlü veya en zeki olan değil, değişime en çok uyum sağlayabilen hayatta kalır.” Bu Rezilyans’ın özüdür sevgili dostum.💪💓 Ya sen ne dersin? Yorumlarda buluşalım.👇 Sevgiyle ve Rezilyant kal.🌟💫 Çiğdem #umut #Rezilyans #Resilience #RezilyansTürkiye #ÇiğdemGörener #Koç

🧩 For all Social Scientists. 1. Positivism (Auguste Comte) •History is a science of facts. •Believes in objectivity, evidence, and chronology. •Criticism: Ignores interpretation and subjectivity. 2. Historicism •Every historical event must be understood in its own context. •Rejects universal laws; emphasizes uniqueness of events. •Key Thinkers: Leopold von Ranke (“to show what actually happened”). 3. Marxist Theory of History (Historical Materialism) •History is shaped by material conditions and class struggle. •Mode of production determines social, political, and cultural life. •Stages: Primitive → Slave → Feudal → Capitalist → Socialist. •Key Figures: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Eric Hobsbawm. 4. Annales School (Longue Durée Approach) •Focus on long-term social, geographical, and economic structures rather than political events. •Introduced interdisciplinary methods (geography, sociology, economics). •Key Figures: Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel. 5. Postmodernism •Challenges the idea of objective truth in history. •Claims history is a narrative constructed by historians. •Emphasizes language, discourse, and power. •Key Thinkers: Michel Foucault, Hayden White. 6. Subaltern Studies •Focuses on the voices of the marginalized — peasants, women, colonized groups. •Challenges Eurocentric and elitist narratives. •Key Figures: Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee. 7. Feminist Historiography •Examines gender as a category of analysis. •Recovers women’s agency and experiences from historical invisibility. •Key Figures: Gerda Lerner, Joan Scott. 8. Cultural History •Focuses on symbols, meanings, and cultural practices. •Examines how people in the past made sense of their world. •Influenced by anthropology and semiotics. 9. Environmental History •Studies interaction between humans and the natural world. •Looks at how climate, geography, and ecology shape societies. 10. Postcolonial Theory •Critiques colonial narratives and the way history has been written from a Western perspective. •Key Thinkers: Edward Said (Orientalism), Homi Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty. #History #science #art #literature #books

🎥 Wir haben Gesine mit einer typischen Klischeefrage überrascht. Wie sie darauf reagiert, seht Ihr im neuen Video ✨ #alverdeMagazin #Gesine #EntwederOder #BehindTheScenes #NatürlichSchön #ReelMoments

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Gente, só digo uma coisa: crescer é muito bom. Eu amo a Leandra de hoje, sinto que algumas certezas que eu tinha, são insignificantes hoje em dia. A verdade é que envelhecer é maneiro demais! Estar f* e cheio de problemas também faz parte, mas vai melhorar. 😅 📹: @gnt