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...Gerda Lerner, who revolutionized the study of women’s history and authored more than 10 books, read favorite passages from her memoir Fireweed before answering questions and signing copies of the book at the Cronkhite Graduate Center. The event was co-sponsored by the Schlesinger Library and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...become famous as Capa, or "shark" in Hungarian. As Nazi power grew in Germany, Friedmann moved to Paris, the only city he would ever consider home. In France, he documented the social and industrial strife of the mid-1930s, struggled to earn a living and fell in love with Gerda Taro. Accepting him for what he was - a charming rogue, a heavy drinker and a notorious womanizer - Taro shared his work, his bed and his dreams. Together they invented Robert Capa, a rich, famous, talented American photographer whose name on a picture boosted its price. In 1936, they moved...
...DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift...
...panelists, all bringing very different backgrounds and approaches to the topic, were writer Betty Friedan, psychoanalyst and author Juliet Mitchell, University of Wisconsin history professor Gerda Lerner and Williams College political science professor Dessima Williams...
Vindicating the Rights of Women--Panelists: writer Betty Friedan, historian Gerda Lerner, cultural critic Bell Hooks, psychoanalist Juliet Mitchell. Discussants: Carol Gilligan of the Graduate School of Education and Bina Agarwal, of Women's Studies, Harvard, and Economics, University of Delhi. Historical introduction by Susan Pederson, of the Harvard Department of History. Moderated by Ellen Fitzpatrick, of the Department of History, Harvard. Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden St. Call 495-9199 for information...