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Gerda Lerner, née Gerda Hedwig Kronstein, à Vienne, le 30 avril 1920 et morte à Madison, le 2 janvier 2013, est une historienne américaine d'origine autrichienne et professeur d'histoire à l'université du Wisconsin à Madison. Elle est l'une des fondatrices du domaine de l'histoire des femmes aux États-Unis et l'une des premières à apporter une perspective historique féministe. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. avril 1920 – 2. janvier 2013
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Gerda Lerner: Citations en anglais

“What women must do, what feminists are now doing is to point to that stage, its sets, its props, its director, and its scriptwriter, as did the child in the fairy tale who discovered that the emperor was naked, and say, the basic inequality between us lies within this framework. And then they must tear it down.”

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Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Patriarchy, Introduction, pp. 13-14
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

“There was therefore no inevitability in the emergence of an all­ male priesthood. The prolonged ideological struggle of the Hebrew tribes against the worship of Canaanite deities and especially the persistence of a cult of the fertility-goddess Asherah must have hardened the emphasis on male cultic leadership and the tendency toward mysogyny, which fully emerged only in the post-exilic pe­riod. Whatever the causes, the Old Testament male priesthood rep­resented a radical break with millennia of tradition and with the practices of neighboring peoples. This new order under the all-powerful God proclaimed to Hebrews and to all those, who took the Bible as their moral and religious guide that women cannot speak to God.”

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Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Patriarchy, ch. 8, pp. 178-179
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

“There was a considerable time lag between the subordination of women in pa­triarchal society and the declassing of the goddesses. As we trace below changes in the position of male and female god figures in the pantheon of the gods in a period of over a thousand years, we should keep in mind that the power of the goddesses and their priestesses in daily life and in popular religion continued in force, even as the supreme goddesses were dethroned. It is remarkable that in societies which had subordinated women economically, educationally, and le­gally, the spiritual and metaphysical power of goddesses remained active and strong.”

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The Creation of Patriarchy, ch. 7, pp. 141-142
The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

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