Lerner has inspired a new era in my own life and self-development, as she has done for countless others in the decades since her first publication. Now that I am fully awake I can clearly see the inconsistencies, contradictions and constructs of a male-dominated nightmare built upon, attained and maintained by the "systematic silencing of other voices." The shock of waking up is complex: I am both relieved and outraged, inspired and embittered, empowered and rebellious, determined and eager to fight. It is as if I have been asleep my entire life, where development, achievement and mere survival have required slogging through a frustrating, nonsensical, exhausting Kafkaesque dream. Reading both of Gerda Lerner's books on Women & History has been… consciousness-raising does not do the experience justice.
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