Fireweed
Subtitle: a political autobiography
By: Gerda Lerner.
Series: Critical perspectives on the past
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Lerner, Gerda, 1920-; Women historians -- United States -- Biography; Women -- United States -- Biography; Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in Women's History, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of context. Lerner's memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began.

The child of a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, she was still a teenager when a fascist regime came to power in 1934, and she became involved in the underground resistance movement. The Nazi take-over of Austria cast her into prison, then forced her and her family into exile; she alone was able to leave Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.