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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12482980.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Beginnings -- Becoming an American -- Becoming an American Radical -- In the Eye of the Storm.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 377 p., [12] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "1566398894 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical perspectives on the past".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Temple University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.91/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "E175.5.L47 A3 2002".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Lerner, Gerda, 1920-2013.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women historians United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Beginnings -- Becoming an American -- Becoming an American Radical -- In the Eye of the Storm.".
- catalog title "Fireweed : a political autobiography / Gerda Lerner.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".