Living with History / Making Social Change

De: Gerda Lerner

Narrado por: Laural Merlington

This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field. Six of the 12 essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. Lerner's reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging lend this book unusual range and depth.

Together, the essays illuminate how thought and action connected in Lerner's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking.

Written in lucid, accessable prose, the essays will appeal to the general reader as well as to students at all levels. Living with History / Making Social Change offers rare insight into the life work of one of the leading historians of the United States.The book is published by The University of North Carolina Press.

©2009 Gerda Lerner (P)2010 Redwood Audiobooks

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"This book is a gift from a great historian to all those who seek a life of learning, teaching, and making change... Perhaps most important, we learn by example how a lifetime of courage and reflection can enable one to meet old age with courage and grace." (Jacquelyn Hall, Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

" Living with History / Making Social Change is a moving self portrait that provides a sense of Lerner as a singularly creative and forceful individual who has participated in - and learned from - some of the major social movements of our time." (Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University)