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Gerda Lerner
(b.1920 in Vienna, Austria) was born into an upper middle class Jewish family. As a teenager she was imprisoned by the Nazis and forced into exile. In 1938, she was the only member of her family to flee to America. In 1958, she returned to college and graduated in 1966 with a PhD from Columbia University. In 1981, Lerner became the first woman in fifty years to be elected president of the Organization of American Historians. She is currently Robinson-Edwards Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her publications include: The Grimke Sisters (1971); The Creation of Patriarchy (1986); The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993); Why History Matters (1997); and her autobiography, Fireweed (2002).Eurozine Articles
"Ageing is a dance on uneven ground..."
Gerda Lerner in interview with Ingrid Bauer and Christa Hämmerle
"Ageing is a dance on uneven ground with weakened limbs, trying out various steps, occasionally gathering momentum and experiencing the dance as it used to be, and, better still, as it is now." [more]
