This collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing women's history as a mainstream field. Six of the twelve essays are new, written especially for this volume. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problem of interpretation of autobiography and memory for the reader and the historian. The essays illuminate how her personal life affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in chich she engaged informed her thinking. In the appendices: Biographies of Midwestern feminist leaders: and Class syllabus for Workshop on the construction of Deviant Out-Groups.