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Article: "New mode of feminist historical analysis"--or just another collusion with "patriarchal" bias?
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- Shofar
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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According to the "Lost Eden Scenario," a Goddess-destroying, woman-oppressing culture, that of the ancient Hebrews, generated many of the sexist ills of Western civilization. This scenario finds adherents even among some reputable scholars, including the renowned feminist historian Gerda Lerner in her wide-ranging feminist history, Creation of Patriarchy. It is important to challenge the ways in which such scholars violate the norms of scholarship; in Lerner's case, in defiance of principles of feminist historical scholarship, which she herself had insightfully enunciated years before the publication of Creation of Patriarchy.
Introduction
Historian ...