The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

A landmark work of feminist history, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness traces how women across centuries began to recognize their shared condition and articulate a collective identity.

Focusing on the period from the Middle Ages through the early modern era, Gerda Lerner uncovers the writers, thinkers, and rebels who laid the intellectual groundwork for feminism, revealing how awareness, resistance, and voice slowly took shape long before the movement had a name.