Gerda Lerner

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1. Gerda Lerner

   Author of The Creation of Patriarchy, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, Why History Matters: Life and Thought

2. Nancy F. Cott

   Author of The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, Root of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women

3. Susan Brownmiller

   Author of Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Femininity, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

4. Mary Daly

   Author of Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, The Church and the Second Sex

5. Robin Morgan

   Author of Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, The anatomy of freedom: Feminism, physics, and global politics

6. Dorothy Sterling

   Author of We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery, Black Foremothers: Three Lives, Second Edition (Women's Lives/Women's Work)

7. Linda K. Kerber

   Author of Women's America: Refocusing the Past, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, U.S. History As Women's History: New Feminist Essays

8. Sara M. Evans

   Author of Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

9. Sheila Rowbotham

   Author of Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World, Woman's Consciousness, Man's World (A Pelican Original)

10. Linda Gordon

    Author of Woman's Body, Woman's Right, Heroes of Their Own Lives

11. Jo Freeman

    Author of Women: A Feminist Perspective, Politics of Womens' Liberation

12. Ann Oakley

    Author of Woman's Work: The Housewife, Past and Present, Subject Women

13. Aileen S. Kraditor

    Author of The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920, Up From the Pedestal

14. Carolyn G. Heilbrun

    Author of Writing a Woman's Life, Reinventing Womanhood

15. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Author of Eighty Years & More, The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches (Women's Studies)

16. Alice S. Rossi

    Author of The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

17. Paula J. Giddings

    Author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

18. bell hooks

    Author of Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

19. Dorothy Dinnerstein

    Author of The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise

20. Adrienne Rich

    Author of Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution