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The Creation of Patriarchy is a non-fiction book written by Gerda Lerner in 1986 as an explanation for the origins of misogyny in ancient Mesopotamia and the following Western societies. She traces the "images, metaphors, [and] myths" that lead to patriarchal concepts' existence in Western society (Lerner 10).
Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography.
Historian Gerda Lerner asserts in her 1986 book The Creation of Patriarchy that there was no single event, and documents that patriarchy as a social system arose in different parts of the world at different times. [36] Some scholars point to social and technological events, notably the emergence of agriculture, about six thousand years ago ...
In Lerner's book The Creation of Patriarchy (1986), she addresses how men have in history appropriated the major symbols of female power, constructed religions around "the counterfactual metaphor of male procreativity," and have "redefined female existence in a narrow and sexually dependent way." She explains that the metaphors for gender ...
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From 1969 to 1970, Carroll and Gerda Lerner served as co-chairs. [4] [5] [6] Carroll was the chair in 1971. [5] [7] Carroll worked as the UIUC director of the department of gender and women's studies from 1983 to 1987 and led the creation of the women's studies program. The women's studies minor was also approved during her tenure.
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