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 Why
History Matters : Life and Thought by Gerda Lerner.
For historian Gerda Lerner, the personal and
the professional are inextricably linked. Recently retired from
her position as a professor of history at the University of
Wisconsin, Lerner has crafted a profound and powerful meditation
on what history means to her, and why it should matter to us.
The essays in Why History Matters strongly connect
Lerner's Judaism and her dual roles as feminist and historian:
"To be a Jew means to live history," she writes, while
Judaism's divisions between the sexes--particularly its denial
of full participation in synagogue to women--eventually led to
her embrace of feminism and her pioneering work in the field of
women's history.
The position of women and other oppressed
groups is of paramount interest to Lerner, and the longest essay
in this collection deals with her theories of patriarchy as the
father of all discriminatory systems. Class and race are other
issues that concern Lerner, and they crop up again here in her
discussion of the differences between black and white women's
views of feminism. Sex, class, and race--all the hot-flash
points at work in today's society--are accounted for in Why
History Matters. There are connections, Lerner argues,
between the violence, poverty, racism, and sexism we see all
around us and the attitudes and events of the past. She has
spent her life tracing these causes and effects, encouraged by
her belief that understanding the past ensures a better future.
And that, Gerda Lerner insists, is why history matters.
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