LEADER 03202cam a2200481 a 4500001 235350 005 20240621195720.0 008 131126s2002 paua b 000 0aeng 010 2001054248 020 1566398894 |qalkaline paper 020 9781566398893 |qalkaline paper 020 9781592132362 |qpaperback 020 1592132367 |qpaperback 035 (OCoLC)ocm48515944 035 235350 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dUKM |dC#P |dBAKER |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dOTP |dGEBAY |dEXW |dALAUL |dUX0 |dBDX |dLHM 050 00 E175.5.L476 |bA3 2002 100 1 Lerner, Gerda, |d1920-2013. 245 10 Fireweed : |ba political autobiography / |cGerda Lerner. 264 1 Philadelphia : |bTemple University Press, |c2002. 300 xiii, 377 pages : |billustrations ; |c26 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Critical perspectives on the past 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 |tBeginnings -- |tBecoming an American -- |tBecoming an American Radical -- |tIn the Eye of the Storm. 520 "In Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in women's history, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of context. Lerner's memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. The child of a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, she was still a teenager when a fascist regime came to power in 1934, and she became involved in the underground resistance movement. The Nazi takeover of Austria cast her into prison, then forced her and her family into exile; she alone was able to leave Europe. Once in the United States, she experienced the harshness of the Depression and despair over the fate of her family. Still, she persisted in adapting to the new culture and to becoming a writer. Here she met and married her life-long partner, Carl Lerner, a film editor and director. Together they become deeply involved in left-wing activities, from struggling to unionize the film industry and resisting the blacklist in Hollywood to community organizing for peace, for an interracial civil rights movement, and for better schools in New York City. Lerner insists that her decades of grassroots organizing largely account for the theoretical insights she was later able to bring to the development of women's history." -- Publisher's description. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Lerner, Gerda, |d1920-2013. 650 0 Women historians |zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 Women |zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 Feminism |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 600 17 Lerner, Gerda |d(1920-....) |xBiographies. |2ram 650 7 Women. |2homoit 650 7 Womyn. |2homoit 650 7 Feminism. |2homoit 650 7 Women's movement. |2homoit 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 830 0 Critical perspectives on the past. 852 0 |bstacks |hE175.5.L476 |iA3 2002 852 0 |bscstacks |hE175.5.L476 |iA3 2002 |tc. 2