May 3, 2002
Political Engagement as Therapy for the Intellect
The writing of one's life can offer an "explanatory myth" at worst and an "entertaining tale" at best, says Gerda Lerner, a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
In Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Temple University Press), she recounts the prehistory of her career in what she calls the "intellectual revolution" of women's history, a field on which she left a pioneering mark with such works as The Woman in American History (1971), The Creation of
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