She laments the talent lost by the repression of women, illustrated by the wasteful and repetitive nature of women's Biblical criticism-which, deprived of a written tradition, each generation had to start anew. After a brief history of women's educational ``disadvantaging,'' the author describes women's various attempts to ``authorize'' themselves through mysticism, heretical religious practices, alternative modes of thought, and motherhood. Lerner's sweeping and erudite chronicle primarily traces women who were aware of belonging to a socially defined, unnaturally subordinate and deprived group, and who expressed their consciousness and their opposition mostly in their writing. of Wisconsin at Madison) follows women's struggle to create a history of their own-from the first written record in the seventh century to the start of the feminist movement. In an excellent follow-up to The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)-a study of how men institutionalized their domination of women-NOW cofounder Lerner (History/Univ.
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