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e 9, Number 1 • Summer (June) 2020
publication of the Saber and Scroll Journd
women’s history has expanded under
female contributors such as Mary Beard
995), and Gerda Lerner (1920–2013).
thers, women’s studies and gender studnto
an understanding that women are 50
s you enjoy this season’s journal focused
s.
istorian, women’s suffrage activist, womas
Force of History: A Study in Traditions
ng with her husband, historian Charles
men in history. Beard, along with Alice
lesinger, established the National Wom-
’s history, Beard defied the women’s sufand
pushed for equality with men. Mary
way and focus on building society and
dependent scholar and only one of five
n’s History in 1970. She is the author of
Movement in the United States (1959),
women’s suffrage movement, women of
vement. Although Flexner was not assor
impeccable research earned her recogrians,
especially women historians, such
and abroad, Women’s Studies MA Pro-
2, Gerda Lerner continued to pave the
eanor Flexner. Lerner entered Columbia
, where she received her MA and PhD in
e to the bending of rules that allowed her
rimke Sisters. Upon finishing her degree,
t,” meaning Women’s Studies, as she was
the field of women’s/gender studies and
forward with a history where women did
e part of the most exciting intelcentury.
ry/Making Social Change (2009)
doi: 10.18278/sshj.9.1.1