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Why History Matters: Life and Thought
In Why History Matters, Lerner brings together her thinking and research of the last sixteen years, combining personal reminiscences with innovative theory to illuminate the importance of history and the vital role women have played in it. Why History Matters contains some of the most significant thinking and writing on history that Lerner has done in her entire career - a summation of her life and work.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: Feb 26th, 1998
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780195122893
- Categories: • Reference• Historiography• Women's Studies
About the Author
Gerda Lerner is Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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"There can be no doubting the deep thoughtfulness that informs [Lerners] every page. And expressing this attitude is a firm, forceful, utterly clear and unpretentious voice. Lerner has set a standard that few of her fellow scholars will ever match."--John Demos, The New York Times Book Review"The peace-seeking warrior's summation of what is worth fighting for....Lerner argues lucidly, energetically, and with authority....Once again, her history-making rings out to urge, to cajole, to bring us our past in order to bring us to our senses and sweeter powers."--Catharine R. Stimpson, The Nation"An important, insightful, easy-to-read collection"--Booklist"This moving collection of essays is testimony--if more were needed--to the breadth of Gerda Lerner's spirit and her humane wisdom."--Linda k. Kerber, co-editor of U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays"Gerda Lerner brings us to the moral Grand Divides of history, then quietly explains where she sees humankind having been, and where, with rational unity, we might yet go. I was fascinated reading Professor Lerner's account of her own disciplined struggle not to hate Germans today for the genocide of European Jewry. She makes it very clear the process is important and on-going."--Alan Adelson, Executive Director, The Jewish Heritage Project"With her customary brilliance and clarity, Gerda Lerner offers us her own story and in the process explains how history happens, is interpreted, utilized, transmuted into meaning and memory, and denied and distorted by those with the power to do so. This book is a gift to all who hope to understand the role of the past in the present..."--Letty Cottin Pogrebin"Now more than ever, readers of history need such lucid critical minds as Lerner's, and this collection is therefore especially welcome."--Publisher's Weekly"This is food for thought for anyone who likes to ponder where we are, how we got there, and what makes transformation possible."--The Boston Globe"Why History Matters is the peace-seeking warrior's summation of what is worth fighting for: what kind of America, what kind of feminism, what kind of history-making, what kind of future. Lerner argues lucidly, energetically, and with authority. Each paragraph is like a stone in a well-constructed bell tower or watch-tower. Once again, her history-making rings out to urge, to cajole, to bring us our past in order to bring us to our senses and sweeter powers."--Catherine R. Stimpson, The Nation"Everything Gerda Lerner says matters....Her sensitivity and her scholarship shine in essays arguing that class, gender, and race are social constructs--damaging inventions that contemporary thought is trying to dismantle."--The New Yorker