Gerda Lerner

"As long as both men and women regard the subordination of half the human race to the other as "natural," it is impossible to envision a society in which differences do not connote either dominance or …"

"Gerda Lerner | Austrian-born American writer and educator"

"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 …"

"The consequence of sexual knowledge is to sever female sexuality from procreation. God puts enmity between the snake and the woman . In the historical context of the times of the writing of Genesis, t…"

"Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women."

"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 figur…"

"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 pe…"

"Women have been kept from contributing to History-making, that is, the ordering and interpretation of the past of humankind. Since this process of meaning-giving is essential to the creation and perpe…"