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(1920-2013) Historian. Gerda Lerner was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Madison, Wisconsin. She received a doctorate in history from Columbia University.

Full Name

Gerda Lerner

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Dr. Lerner received a master's degree and a doctorate in history from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.

Unknown

OTHER

Dr. Lerner worked in Manhattan, New York, and trained at Sydenham Hospital in Harlem.

1920

BIRTH

Gerda Hedwig Kronstein was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 30, 1920.

1955

LITWORK

No Farewell
Associated Authors

Novel.

1963

OTHER

Dr. Lerner received a bachelor's degree from the New School in Manhattan, New York, and there she taught what is considered to be the first women's history course in the world in 1963.

1967

LITWORK

The Grimke Sisters From South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery
Houghton Mifflin Co
039507908X / 978-0395079089
Nonfiction.

1968

OTHER

Dr. Lerner began teaching history at Sarah Lawrence College in 1968 and remained there until 1979.

1971

LITWORK

The Woman In American History


Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

Black Women In White America: A Documentary History
Pantheon Books
0394475402 / 978-0394475400
Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

The Female Experience: Documents in American History


Nonfiction.

1978

LITWORK

A Death Of One's Own
Simon & Schuster
0671240080 / 978-0671240080
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

The Majority Finds Its Past
Oxford University Press, USA
0195025970 / 978-0195025972
Collection of essays.

1986

LITWORK

The Creation of Patriarchy
Oxford University Press, USA
0195039963 / 978-0195039962
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
Oxford University Press, USA
0195066049 / 978-0195066043
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
Temple University Press
1566398894 / 978-1566398893
Nonfiction.

2013

DEATH

Gerda Lerner died in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 2, 2013.

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