Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison in Vienna and feared that birthday would be her last. Her jailers meant to starve her, but her cellmates — two gentile women imprisoned for their ...

Historian Gerda Lerner, a pioneer in the creation of women's studies as an academic discipline, has died in Madison, Wisc. She was 92. A prolific feminist author, Lerner wrote texts that traced the ...

An anti-fascist, a radical, an immigrant, an outsider, her pioneering work to launch women’s history programs and feminist movements was transformational. By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

[imgbelt img= gerdalerner530.jpg]Women’s lives were absent from the study of history until the 1970s. Gerda Lerner took herself and her students seriously, demanding that universities do the same.

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison, sharing a cell with two gentile women arrested for political work who shared their food with the Jewish teenager because jailers ...

Gerda Lerner, a scholar and author who helped to establish women’s history as an academic discipline, died on Wednesday in Madison, Wis., according to an obituary in The New York Times. She was 92. At ...

Gerda Lerner, a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who played a pioneering role in the study of women’s history, has died at age 92, a university official said on Thursday. Lerner ...

Lerner, 92, was a founding member of the National Organization for Women She founded the nation's first graduate program in women's history Involved in activism that ranged from attempting to unionize ...