Her family was typical of the Jewish bourgeoisie in central Europe but also most unconventional, in the way that their class status allowed. She was born Gerda Hedwig Kronstein to a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna in 1920. Over 50 years, a field that encompassed a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians became one with thousands and expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College to the presence of women’s-history faculty in the great majority of US colleges and universities. Gerda Lerner was the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s.
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