Als bahnbrechende feministische Historikerin, Autorin und soziale Reformerin ist Gerda Lerner zweifellos eine der inspir | dG1fSGpxYjlCU091SDQ
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00:00Understanding our history is not just important to women, it's important to everybody.
00:13We define what our goals are and what we think is possible to reach in our lives by the stories we inherit about people who came before us who are like us.
00:28And then, because I knew her, some wonderful stories about going to do research for this book in the South, where she would tell about getting off a train in a small town and getting into a taxi and saying,
00:48I want to be taken to that church, which was an African-American church, in this small outskirts of the small town of the taxi driver saying,
00:57oh ma'am, you don't want to go there. And Gerd is saying, oh yes I do.
01:02And the government brought up these howitzers, artillery pieces on a hill opposite it and shot into the housing project. And there were women and children in those apartments.
01:17That's when I became politically active, because they were shooting at civilians, the government.
01:27And I sometimes say that women inhabit an alternate reality. And I think it's really true, because the reality that comes from living in the skull, the clamped on helmet of patriarchy, is very convincing.
01:46It's like the film The Matrix, you know, you really think that this is real, but it is not who you are.
01:53And that drive to be heard. She will be heard. That drive to be heard. The sense that being heard, having a voice, validating, speaking the truth of one's own experience,
02:12the good, the bad, the ugly, is survival. That survival is a form of resistance to inequality.
02:21That fuels the need for women's history.
02:30Some of the earliest examples, undoubtedly, are the female mystics who proclaimed for themselves a direct connection with the divine.
02:39Right. They contradicted that teaching that God does not speak to women, and they contradicted it in the most emphatic way by saying, God spoke to me.
02:51Since Weaving...
03:09That's quite a long time...
03:11AnOA
03:16Amen.