The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerda Lerner
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The seventh century to 1870
- Setting: Western Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Hrosvitha of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, Anna Vetter, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, Rachel Morpurgo, Sarah Grimké, Rebecca Jackson, Emily Dickinson
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Poetry or poets, Feminism, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Women, Sixteenth century, Mysticism, Drama or dramatists, Western Europe or western Europeans, Middle Ages, Career women, Shakers
- Locales: Europe, United States
With The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy Gerda Lerner has completed her two-volume magnum opus Women and History, which she began in 1986 with The Creation of Patriarchy. Ranging over the whole of Western history from prehistory to the late nineteenth century, Lerner has theorized how and why the system of patriarchy originated (in the first volume) and the long process by which women began to “think their way out” of that systematic subordination (in the present volume). Unlike many historians, Lerner is undaunted by...
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