The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gerda Lerner
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- 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
Form and Content
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 with The Creation of Patriarchy (1986). 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 second volume). Unlike many...
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