The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women's history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women's history after its original publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda Lerner's body of work and highlighting the importance of the essays in this collection to the development of the field that Lerner helped establish.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History Friday, July 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: Gerda Lerner: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History Friday, July 17 2009.

• The striking fact about the historiography of women is the general neglect of the subject by historians.